[Cfp-interest 1956] Re: inexact exception

[Jim Thomas]

CFP has been working on the hypot spec and will be proposing an update that does not refer to fabs.

Jim Thomas

> On Apr 7, 2021, at 9:48 PM, Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann at inria.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Correction: The two binding tables referred to below are in F.3 #1 and F.3 #20 (in N2596).
> 
> thank you Jim. Now there is a related issue raised by Matthias Kretz in [1].
> F.10.4.4 says "hypot(x,±0) is equivalent to fabs(x)". Since fabs is in the
> first table, one could conclude that full support for the inexact exception
> should be provided for hypot(x,±0). Clarification is needed here too. This
> might concern other functions and other exceptions.
> 
> Paul
> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27460