[Cfp-interest 2472] Re: Likely upcoming work for CFP from WG14's meeting today

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Thu Jul 28 02:24:04 PDT 2022


Hi,

On 2022-07-21 17:05:44 +0000, Rajan Bhakta wrote:
> For ++E DFP quantum exponent issue:
> From Joseph:
> The issue is that the wording now consistently no longer says 1 in
> program font, it says 1 in appropriate type.

I don't have the text, but said like that, This change is rather
strange, as "appropriate type" cannot apply to pointers.

On 2022-07-21 20:22:30 -0700, Jim Thomas wrote:
> I agree. Maybe add “If E has decimal floating type, the added 1 has
> quantum exponent 0.”

What about the standard floating types if FLT_RADIX is 10 and the
formats have quanta?

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