[Cfp-interest 1747] Re: Underflow range error

Damian McGuckin damianm at esi.com.au
Tue Aug 11 17:25:05 PDT 2020


On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, Fred J. Tydeman wrote:

> Attached is my first pass at words for the C standard about
> exact subnormal results and three math functions.

For the last 7.12.12.1#2 case, is not this more precise.

 	For x and y both finite, a range error may (or will) occur
 	when x - y is too close-to-zero (or too large),

Just curious. Yes, it is longer.

Regards - Damian

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