[cfp-interest 3837] Re: Annex F miscellaneous

[Jim Thomas]

> On Mar 26, 2026, at 11:18 AM, Damian McGuckin <damianm at esi.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

This is the only instance of “tiny” in C. The “generally indicates” is intended to refer to floating-point parlance. The reference to 60559 points to the details. A footnote (or a note) seems appropriate here. 
> 
> 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.

In this annex, tiny means what 60559 says it means.

- Jim Thomas

> 
> Thanks - Damian
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