[cfp-interest 3673] Re: Confusingly long sentence in F.3#6

Jim Thomas jaswthomas at sbcglobal.net
Mon Oct 20 09:49:08 PDT 2025



> On Oct 19, 2025, at 11:23 PM, Damian McGuckin <damianm at esi.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> Still confused.
> 
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2025, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> 
>> 	 The C classification macros fpclassify, iscanonical, isfinite,
>> 	 isinf, isnan, isnormal, issignaling, issubnormal, iszero,
>> 	 and signbit provide the ISO/IEC 60559 operations indicated in
>> 	 Table F.2 provided their arguments are in the format of their
>> 	 semantic type.
> 
> The first 'their', i.e. their argument, refers to the one of those macros.
> 
> To what does the second 'their' refer. It cannot again be referring to the macros as they have no semantic types.

It refers to “arguments”.

- Jim Thomas

> 
> Very confused - Damian
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