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Re: RFC: TS 18661-1 floating-point interfaces
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 22:13:01 +0000
- Subject: Re: RFC: TS 18661-1 floating-point interfaces
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 06/10/2016 08:58 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014 provides C interfaces for various required
> > features of IEEE 754-2008, analogous to the support for IEEE 754-1985
> > added in C99.
>
> This looks good to me.
There's a question in there about grouping APIs for inclusion (all
together versus particular well-defined groups potentially going in
separately).
> The only thing I note is that you suggested implementation of all of
> TS 18661-1, but oddly absent from this plan are the additions to
> stdlib.h e.g. strfromd? Did I miss something?
Those are expected to be included in the preparations for float128
support, like nextup and nextdown functions.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com