[Cfp-interest 2719] Re: definition of "floating types"

Wed Mar 1 10:52:15 PST 2023

On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 17:39:17 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
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>Is the "evaluation format" associated with float (resp. double)
>necessarily a fixed type?

If FLT_EVAL_METHOD is 0, 1, or 2, then yes.
If it is a negative number, then no.

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