[cfp-interest 3377] Re: CFP accomplishment and future

Damian McGuckin damianm at esi.com.au
Mon Feb 10 21:18:06 PST 2025


On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, Jim Thomas wrote:

> What is CFP?s purpose now? Based on the direction we?re going, the purpose
> appears to be to:
> 
> 1. Advise WG14 on maintenance of C support for ISO/IEC 60559, i.e. propose
> bug fixes and clarifications, and comment on related new C proposals.
> 2. Advise WG14 on issues related to floating point in general.
> 3. Provide liaison between WG14 and the IEEE 754 Working Group.

As IEEE 754 have hinted at some mention of complex and imaginary in 2029, 
we might have to get involved in undoing the removal of imaginary types in 
C2X sometime in 2030 (assuming IEEE 754 is done by 2029).

Thanks - Damian


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