[cfp-interest 3830] Annex F miscellaneous
Damian McGuckin
damianm at esi.com.au
Thu Mar 26 11:18:36 PDT 2026
In a recent tweak, we refer to ISO/IEC 60559 in the body of the text on
the issue of how to quiet'en a NaN. In the same spirit and in the flavour
of WG14's preference of avoiding footnotes, I would like to propose to
move footnote 449)
Tiny generally indicates having a magnitude in the subnormal
range. See ISO/IEC 60559 for details about detecting tininess.
referred in F.10.1#9
The "underflow" floating-point exception is raised whenever a
computed result is tiny 449) and the returned result is inexact.
into that clause as.
The "underflow" floating-point exception is raised whenever a
computed result is tiny and the returned result is inexact. In
this annex, tiny generally indicates having a magnitude in the
subnormal range. See ISO/IEC 60559 for details about detecting
tininess.
Thanks - Damian
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