[Cfp-interest 2116] Re: AI to update proposal about C overflow and underflow definitions

Damian McGuckin damianm at esi.com.au
Sun Aug 22 20:41:27 PDT 2021


On Sun, 22 Aug 2021, Jim Thomas wrote:

> Action item:
>
>           Jim: Update N2746 with CFP 2090.
> 
> Here?s as proposal update:
> 
> https://wiki.edg.com/pub/CFP/WebHome/C23_proposal_-_overflow_and_underflow_
> definitions-update-20210822.pdf

Does the first sentence imply 2 cases, i.e.

The result underflows if a nonzero result value with ordinary accuracy 
would have magnitude (absolute value) less than the minimum normalized 
number in the type, or a zero result that is not an exact zero 249)...

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