[Cfp-interest 2294] Re: AIs from WG 14 for CFP -- 5.2.4.2.2 clarification, double-double support

Tue Nov 23 06:59:57 PST 2021

On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:38:54 -0800 Jim Thomas wrote:
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>1.0 + DBL_MIN and "super-normal" numbers are not in the model. Normalized floating-point numbers are intended to be restricted to the model. Maybe that needs to be clearer?
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Agreed.  I keep forgetting that 'x' is a model number.

One idea is to change 'x' to 'model_fp'.

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