[Cfp-interest 2775] Re: CFP review of NB comments on CD2 - 20230602

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 21:09:04 -0700 Jim Thomas wrote:
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>The example offered isn't about floating-point exceptions. You could have a similar example for int instead of double. The text in 9.1, "Therefore, between function calls, floating-point exceptions need not be precise: ", doesn't mean you can delay an operation just because it is exceptional.
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I am assuming: an exceptional floating-point (FP) operation does two things at the same time:
  raise a FP exception 
  return a FP value

So, if the time of the FP exception is not precise, then the time of the FP value is not precise.


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