[Cfp-interest 3296] Re: N3288 (Give consistent wording for SNAN initialization)

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:47:53 -0700 Jim Thomas wrote:
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>2. If the standard says "evaluated at translation time" is it clear that the reference is to semantics and not a possible optimization?
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>E.g. For
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>#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS OFF
>auto double x = SNAN;
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>The evaluation of SNAN is semantically runtime, but could be done at translation time as an optimization because of the pragma. However, the (semantically runtime) evaluation of SNAN results in a quiet NaN regardless of when the implementation evaluates it.
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>- Jim Thomas
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C2y N3301 F.3#4 (along with footnote 424) says a QNAN is not required
(If I am reading it correctly).


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