[Cfp-interest 2523] Fwd: Editorial review

Jim Thomas jaswthomas at sbcglobal.net
Thu Aug 11 20:06:19 PDT 2022



> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery.com>
> Subject: Re: Editorial review
> Date: August 11, 2022 at 5:27:58 PM PDT
> To: Jim Thomas <jaswthomas at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: David Keaton <dmk at dmk.com>, Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com>, Rajan Bhakta <rbhakta at us.ibm.com>, Alex Gilding <agilding at perforce.com>, Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt at inria.fr>, Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis at gmail.com>, Robert Seacord <rcseacord at gmail.com>, "Fred J. Tydeman" <tydeman at tybor.com>, JeanHeyd Meneide <phdofthehouse at gmail.com>, Freek Wiedijk <freek at cs.ru.nl>
> 
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2022, Jim Thomas wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for catching the problem, Joseph. 
>> 
>>> On Aug 11, 2022, at 11:30 AM, Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'd like to query another Annex F change in that same commit.
>>> 
>>> That commit removes the second introductory paragraph that was added in 
>>> N2600, "The IEC 60559 floating-point standard is a minor upgrade ...".  Is 
>>> that removal intended or should that paragraph be restored?
>> 
>> That removal was not intended. The paragraph should be restored.
>>> 
>>> And the second paragraph *removed* by N2600, "The IEC 60559 floating-point 
>>> standard specifies decimal, as well as binary, floating-point arithmetic. 
>>> ...", is still present in the working draft - it looks like it was never 
>>> removed.  Should it be present, or should it have been removed as 
>>> specified in N2600?
>> 
>> That paragraph should not be present. It should be removed as specified 
>> in N2600.
> 
> Thanks.  I've filed 
> https://gitlab.gwdg.de/iso-c/draft/-/merge_requests/319 to fix this.
> 
> I've completed my main editorial review (of all commits from 2020 onwards, 
> where I hadn't previous done a detailed review of those commits).  Apart 
> from all the fixes that are by now present in the main branch in git, my 
> editorial review issues are reflected in 25 open merge requests (295 to 
> 319) and two open issues (249 and 250).  (There will of course be overlap 
> with issues found by other people.)  In addition there are the 
> non-editorial issues I found in the course of editorial review, raised on 
> the reflector and expect to raise in NB comments.
> 
> -- 
> Joseph S. Myers
> joseph at codesourcery.com

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