<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-size: 19px;">Publication of the TS-4 and TS-5 revisions completes CFP’s purpose as stated on the CFP webpage: “Develop a C language binding for ISO/IEC 60559 Floating-Point Arithmetic.” C23 together with the two TS revisions specify C language binding for all required and reasonably applicable recommended features of the latest version of ISO/IEC 60559. </div><div style="font-size: 19px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 19px;">CFP started in Feb 2009--a 16-year effort! That is a very long time for a tech project, but it could not have been shorter. We started with C99, based on IEEE 754-1985. C23 was the next major C revision, which was the first opportunity to make the upgrade needed to support the 2009 and 2019 revisions of the floating-point standard. </div><div style="font-size: 19px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 19px;">What is CFP’s purpose now? Based on the direction we’re going, the purpose appears to be to:</div><div style="font-size: 19px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 19px;">1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Advise WG14 on maintenance of C support for ISO/IEC 60559, i.e. propose bug fixes and clarifications, and comment on related new C proposals.</div><div style="font-size: 19px;">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Advise WG14 on issues related to floating point in general.</div><div style="font-size: 19px;">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Provide liaison between WG14 and the IEEE 754 Working Group.</div><div style="font-size: 19px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 19px;">Your thoughts?</div><div style="font-size: 19px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 19px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 19px;">- Jim Thomas</div><div><br></div></body></html>