[Cfp-interest 2541] Use of the terms "floating-point type/constant" in N3047

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Tue Aug 16 06:07:07 PDT 2022


Hi,

In the N3047 draft, page vi:

  The terms "floating-point type" and "floating-point constant" were
  changed to just be "floating type" and "floating constant", as are
  defined in the standard, respectively.

But I could see 2 occurrences of "floating-point type" and one
occurrence of "floating-point constant" in the text:

5.2.4.2.2#1 page 22

  [...] shall implement floating-point types and arithmetic [...]

Shouldn't this be "shall implement floating types and floating-point
arithmetic"?

6.7.1#13 page 96

  [...] Equally, an implementation that uses excess precision for
  floating-point constants violates the constraint [...]

H.3#7 page 549

  the difference between 1 and the least value greater than 1 that
  is representable in the given floating-point type, b^{1−p}

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