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Re: [rfc] rint() rounds to even
- To: Roland McGrath <frob at debian dot org>
- Subject: Re: [rfc] rint() rounds to even
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 29 Jan 2001 15:18:36 -0800
- Cc: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>, Ben Collins <bcollins at debian dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <200101292309.f0TN9ap16224@neuralgia.linnaean.org>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Roland McGrath <frob@debian.org> writes:
> What I meant by my suggestion is to say something rather than nothing, even
> if to explicitly say "unspecified and the behavior might change in the
> future". It is useful to be explicitly made aware that you should not be
> relying on something that you might not have realized you were depending on
> before the manual made you think about it.
If you start doing this half of the document would consist of comments
like this. There are more cases not covered by standards than vice
versa. To avoid this unnecessary bloat standards are written the way
I said, declare things not specified as officially unspecified.
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