From: Damian McGuckin <damianm@esi.com.au>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] Min and Max of 2 Floating Point numbers
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 08:03:30 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.02.2002240756510.13368@key0.esi.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200223152147.GO1663@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
On Sun, 23 Feb 2020, Rich Felker wrote:
> Unless by "propagate nans" you mean some specific behavior beyond
> preserving one of the input nans,
Correct. Corrently, for input 'x' and 'y', the routines agree with IEEE
754 2008 and say
if (isnan(x))
return y;
To agree with IEEE 754 2019, they shold say.
if (isnan(x))
return x;
There is a new operation defined which I think preserves the old
behaviour.
Regards - Damian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-23 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-23 7:08 Damian McGuckin
2020-02-23 15:21 ` Rich Felker
2020-02-23 21:03 ` Damian McGuckin [this message]
2020-02-23 21:18 ` Florian Weimer
2020-02-23 23:20 ` Damian McGuckin
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