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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">We should do things in the standard way.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Ian McIntosh IBM Canada Lab Compiler Back End Support and Development<br>
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<img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABBF1C3DFCDF77B8f9e8a93df938@ca.ibm.com" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Jim Thomas ---04/17/2013 12:25:32 PM---At our April teleconference, regarding the comment: Clause 10."><font size="2" color="#424282" face="sans-serif">Jim Thomas ---04/17/2013 12:25:32 PM---At our April teleconference, regarding the comment: Clause 10.1, Page 11, Line 7 Punctuation is inco</font><br>
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<font size="1" face="sans-serif">Jim Thomas <jaswthomas@sbcglobal.net></font></td></tr>
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<font size="1" face="sans-serif">04/17/2013 12:25 PM</font></td></tr>
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<font size="1" face="sans-serif">[Cfp-interest] second thoughts on style issue</font></td></tr>
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<font size="3" face="serif">At our April teleconference, regarding the comment:</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">Clause 10.1, Page 11, Line 7 Punctuation is inconsistent</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">we decided to recommend:</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">Use dark round bullets (to avoid confusion with negation), no punctuation.</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">Looking at C11 I don't see use of such style. More consistent with C11 would be to precede the list with a colon and use no bullets or punctuation. I suggest we recommend:</font><br>
<p><font size="3" face="serif">!& with up to </font><font size="3" face="serif"><i>H</i></font><font size="3" face="serif"> decimal digits, where H is defined as follows:</font>
<p><font size="3" face="serif"><i>H</i></font><font size="3" face="serif"> !C </font><font size="3" face="serif"><i>M</i></font><font size="3" face="serif"> + 3</font>
<p><font size="3" face="serif"><i>M</i></font><font size="3" face="serif"> = 1+ceiling(</font><font size="3" face="serif"><i>p</i></font><font size="3" face="serif">!?log</font><font size="3" face="serif"><sub>10</sub></font><font size="3" face="serif">(2))</font>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><i>p</i></font><font size="2" face="Arial"> is the precision of the widest supported IEC 60559 binary format</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Arial">What do you think?</font><br>
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