[cfp-interest 3649] Re: [SC22WG14.34140] CFP teleconference - Wednesday, October 15

[Robert Seacord]

I think CFP is doing a good job, and it's not costing anyone anything, so
what's the beef?

rCs

On Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 8:13 PM Marcus Johnson <marcusljohnson1991 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
>
> 
> 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?
>
> - Jim Thomas
>
>
> On Oct 9, 2025, at 9:02 AM, Marcus Johnson <marcusljohnson1991 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Sorry for interrupting, but exactly does C need to devote so much energy
> to floating point types?
>
> Like, there's the sign bit, the exponent, an implicit bit, and the
> mantissa.
>
> Why so much effort?
>
> On Oct 9, 2025, at 10:59 AM, Jim Thomas <jaswthomas at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> 
> The next teleconference of the C Floating-Point Study Group will be
>
> Wednesday, October 15, 2025
> 8 AM PDT / 3 PM UTC
>
> 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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