[Cfp-interest 2043] Re: remquo()

[Jim Thomas]

> On Jun 28, 2021, at 8:29 AM, Fred J. Tydeman <tydeman at tybor.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 16:27:47 -0700 Jim Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> We can remove the second sentence in #1, since we're adding further specification. 
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>> Fred's suggested sentence could be a second paragraph. 
> 
> Or be part of the first paragraph.
> 
>> Subnormals are supported with Annex F, so the first part of current #2 is not needed. With these changes we would have
> 
> Since long double can be "non-IEC 60559 extended format"
> it is not clear to me that subnormals are support for all FP types.

Right. It might be more direct to say

For IEC 60559 formats, the returned value is exact and is independent of the current rounding direction mode.

- Jim Thomas

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