<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 8, 2021, at 12:38 PM, Mike Cowlishaw <<a href="mailto:mfc@speleotrove.com" class="">mfc@speleotrove.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left" class=""><span class="073063620-08012021"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial" class="">I'd read that as the first use of 'characteristics' being
general English, </font></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Yes, you could read it that way. However, here it also refers more specifically to the characteristics defined by the macros. </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space" class=""><div dir="ltr" align="left" class=""><span class="073063620-08012021"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial" class="">but the second use '<font size="3" face="Times New Roman" class="">characteristics provide information</font>' sounds
as though they are functions in an API?</font></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Yes, The characteristics are part of the API, in the form of macros. Note that the type-specific macro specifications are introduce by</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div>[10] The remainder of this subclause specifies characteristics of standard floating types.</div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>- Jim Thomas</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space" class="">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left" class=""><span class="073063620-08012021"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial" class="">Mike</font></span></div><br class="">
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[<a href="mailto:cfp-interest-bounces@oakapple.net" class="">mailto:cfp-interest-bounces@oakapple.net</a>] <b class="">On Behalf Of </b>Jim
Thomas<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b> 08 January 2021 03:49<br class=""><b class="">To:</b>
CFP<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b> [Cfp-interest 1880] 5.2.4.2.2
clarification<br class=""></font><br class=""></div>
<div class=""></div>5.2.4.2.2 begins with:<br class=""><br class="">
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The characteristics of floating types are defined in terms of a model
that describes a representation of floating-point numbers
and values that provide information about an implementation’s
floating-point arithmetic.21)</blockquote><br class="">Presumably “that”
refers to “characteristics”, which isn’t clear from the
sentence structure. Here's a possible clarification:<br class=""><br class="">
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The characteristics of floating types are defined in terms of a model
that describes a representation of floating-point numbers
and allows other values. The characteristics provide
information about an implementation’s floating-point
arithmetic.21)</blockquote>
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