[Cfp-interest 2050] Re: remquo()

[Jim Thomas]

> On Jul 1, 2021, at 9:49 PM, Fred J. Tydeman <tydeman at tybor.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 20:37:26 -0700 Jim Thomas wrote:
>> 
>>>> 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.
> 
> If alternate exception handling (abruptUnderflow) of IEEE-754-2019
> every gets adopted by C, that would be wrong.

Suggestion retracted.

- Jim Thomas

> 
> Also, fmod() and remainder() have the same sentence.
> 
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