[PATCH v4] Add nextup and nextdown math functions
Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan
raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sun Jun 12 16:14:00 GMT 2016
On 06/10/2016 09:44 AM, Rical Jasan wrote:
> On 06/09/2016 09:35 AM, Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan wrote:
>
> These sound much better to me! I think the clincher is the language:
> "positive/negative number of least magnitude in the type of". Feels
> succinct, yet all-encompassing.
>
> Hopefully this is small enough to not be annoying, and not small enough
> to be annoying, but the only question I have is should we give a mention to:
>
> On 06/07/2016 10:24 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, Rical Jasan wrote:
>>> Lastly, is there anything to say about floating-point exceptions?
>> Only that these functions raise no exceptions except for sNaNs.
>
> Though maybe that is implied somehow in the behaviour described above?
> I'm unsure of when an sNaN exception is raised versus a qNaN, and the
> description doesn't distinguish. Otherwise this is great.
>
> Thank you,
> Rical
>
>
Modified arith.texti in the attached version.
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Thanks
Rajalakshmi S
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