[cfp-interest 3648] Re: [SC22WG14.34122] CFP teleconference - Wednesday, October 15

[Marcus Johnson]

The latter, why does the C language need so much effort to support floating point types?

Does C++ require this much effort for the same support, or does it get it for free?

Seems like something compiler implementers would need to support, not the language it's self.

> On Oct 11, 2025, at 12:48 PM, Jim Thomas <jaswthomas at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> The C Abstract says, "Its purpose is to promote portability, reliability, maintainability, and efficient execution of C language programs on a variety of computing systems.” Are you asking why that purpose needs to cover programs that use floating point? Or, are you asking why fulfilling that purpose for floating point needs to be so complicated? Or something else?
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> - Jim Thomas
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>> On Oct 9, 2025, at 9:02 AM, Marcus Johnson <marcusljohnson1991 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Sorry for interrupting, but exactly does C need to devote so much energy to floating point types?
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>> Like, there's the sign bit, the exponent, an implicit bit, and the mantissa.
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>> Why so much effort?
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>>>> On Oct 9, 2025, at 10:59 AM, Jim Thomas <jaswthomas at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>>> The next teleconference of the C Floating-Point Study Group will be 
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>>> Wednesday, October 15, 2025
>>> 8 AM PDT / 3 PM UTC
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>>> A draft agenda for this teleconference, including directions for joining the Zoom meeting, and minutes from previous teleconferences are posted on the CFP wiki <https://wiki.edg.com/bin/view/CFP/WebHome> (contact me if you need login info).
>>> 
>>> - Jim Thomas 
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