<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;">Hmm. The definition says<div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a pole error (also known as a singularity or infinitary) occurs if the mathematical function has an exact infinite result as the finite input argument(s) are approached in the limit (for example, log(0.0)</div><div><br></div><div>So pole errors occur. I guess what the committee means is the implementation is not required to report them.</div><div><br></div><div>-Jim</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 9, 2014, at 2:29 AM, Rajan Bhakta <<a href="mailto:rbhakta@us.ibm.com">rbhakta@us.ibm.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">With regards to my action item regarding
why "may" is used for pole errors:</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Committee discussion: May is used since
pole errors are not required to be present in C11.</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Regards,<br>
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Rajan Bhakta<br>
z/OS XL C/C++ Compiler Technical Architect<br>
ISO C Standards Representative for Canada<br>
C Compiler Development<br>
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