<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I wasn't on the C committee at the time, but did review the TR and argued, unsuccessfully, against the FLOAT_CONST_DECIMAL64 pragma. I don't see the d/D suffix as a mistake/oversight. It's a solution to the problem of how to write double constants that are protected against reinterpretation under the pragma. For example, the suffix lets you write a <float.h> header that doesn't break if the pragma happens to be in effect where the header is included. The suffix is used in this way in shipping headers.<div><br></div><div>For the CFP TS Part 2, it might be reasonable to </div><div><br></div><div>1. deprecate both the pragma and the suffix, or</div><div>2. remove both the pragma and the suffix.</div><div><br></div><div>With 2, I think an implementation could continue to support the pragma and/or suffix as extensions and still be in compliance with TS Part 2. Is this correct?</div><div><br></div><div>-Jim<br><div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 26, 2012, at 4:35 AM, Rajan Bhakta wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi,</font>
<br>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I talked to Edison regarding the d/D
suffix for the double generic type and he said it went into the Decimal
TR by mistake/oversight as a blind acceptance of Fred's WG14 comment 10904
(the suffix is point 6) without review. He did say he didn't intend for
it to happen after seeing it.</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">In essence he said we (IBM) screwed
up and would want to rectify the issue by removing the suffix and wants
to have this as a defect report. So I would like to keep my comments in
the TS part 2 regarding removing the d/D suffix.</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Regards,<br>
<br>
Rajan Bhakta<br>
z/OS XL C/C++ Compiler Technical Architect<br>
ISO C Standards Representative for Canada<br>
C Compiler Development<br>
Contact: <a href="mailto:rbhakta@ca.ibm.com">rbhakta@ca.ibm.com</a>, Rajan Bhakta/Toronto/IBM<br>
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