[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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