Draft C bindings for IEEE 754-2008 part 4 now available

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2014-01-07 16:45:49 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> Sure, such a correctly rounded function is useful just like correctly 
> rounded versions of other functions.  The proposed C bindings reserve cr* 
> names *only* for the specific functions listed in 9.2 where IEEE 754 
> recommends correctly rounded functions, not for other existing ISO C 
> functions (e.g. erf, tgamma) or functions added by the C bindings by 
> analogy with other IEEE 754 functions (e.g. tanpi), but I think correctly 
> rounded versions of other functions (with the same naming convention) 
> could reasonably be added to glibc if anyone wishes to implement them.

New CR functions may be added in future revisions of IEEE 754, so
that I think that cr* names should be reserved for all functions.

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