[Cfp-interest 2375] Re: WG14 IEEE 754-C binding meeting minutes 2022/02/10

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:48:11 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
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>If the 'i' suffix is added, what about the imaginary infinities?
>Will a new macro be added or is multiplying by 'I' sufficient?

A problem is:  I is not required to be imaginary, it can be complex.
If it is complex, then INFINITY * I ends up being 
CMPLXF(NAN, INFINITY) 

If imaginary types are not supported, but the 'i' suffix is supported,
I do not know what  INFINITY * 1.fi  would end up being.

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