From:	<ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
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Subject:	Re: Arithmetic Exceptions in C99
In-Reply-To:	<3F4F9350.5030908@cyberoptics.com> "from Eric Rudd at Aug 29, 2003
	12:54:24 pm"
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Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:24:38 +0200 (CEST)
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According to Eric Rudd:
> ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se wrote:
> >>The math functions shouldn't raise SIGFPE unless something goes wrong.
> >  
> >
> 
> By "something goes wrong", do you mean "an unreasonable argument was 
> passed", or do you mean "a bug in the math functions caused a problem"?

I mean an unreasonable argument was passed (if passing arguments that
causes overflow or underflow or ... is unreasonable).

> >>The answer is: as Annex F is normative and we want to comply to C99,
> >>yes. (When we reach that status is a different story.)
> >  
> >
> 
> The material in Annex F needs to be implemented only if __STDC_IEC_559__ 
> is defined.

Yes. I didn't see that.


Right,

						MartinS

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