<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Jim Thomas <<a href="mailto:jaswthomas@sbcglobal.net">jaswthomas@sbcglobal.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: (SC22WG14.12853) data-interchange and scalar types</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">March 27, 2013 5:29:16 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Joseph S. Myers" <<a href="mailto:jsm@polyomino.org.uk">jsm@polyomino.org.uk</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">SC22 WG14 <<a href="mailto:sc22wg14@open-std.org">sc22wg14@open-std.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><br>On Mar 27, 2013, at 4:51 PM, "Joseph S. Myers" <<a href="mailto:jsm@polyomino.org.uk">jsm@polyomino.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Jim Thomas wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">After further consideration, I think we do want data-interchange types <br>to be scalar types. This fits with the general meaning of scalar as <br>non-composite, and it requires fewer changes to the C standard (and <br>avoids changes in the memory and atomics clauses).<br><br>So we'd have "Arithmetic types, data-interchange types, and pointer <br>types are collectively called scalar types." And in a few places, for <br>example in 6.5.13 Constraints, we'd need to change "scalar" to <br>"arithmetic or pointer" to exclude data-interchange.<br></blockquote><br>"arithmetic or pointer" makes sense to me. But in N1691 (clause 10) you <br>have "floating or pointer", which doesn't make sense to me at all; it <br>would appear to exclude integer types.<br></blockquote><br>Right. The six instances of "floating or pointer" in N1691 should all be "arithmetic or pointer". Thanks.<br><br>-Jim Thomas<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>-- <br>Joseph S. Myers<br><a href="mailto:joseph@codesourcery.com">joseph@codesourcery.com</a><br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>