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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 10:20:41 +1100 (AEDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.02.2002241017150.17524@key0.esi.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu99ovdk.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020, Florian Weimer wrote:

> I don't think the new IEEE 754 version specifies the behavior of the
> fmax/fmin functions due to the way they implemented this change.  Do
> you have a publicly accessible reference?

Silly me. Yes, fmax and fmin stay functionally the same.
>
> For ISO C, there is a different proposal here:
>
>  <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2489.pdf>
>
> It preserves the existing behavior of fmax/fmin, as far as I can tell.

Yes it does. I got confused.

Apologies - Damian

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      reply	other threads:[~2020-02-23 23:20 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
2020-02-23 21:18 ` Florian Weimer
2020-02-23 23:20   ` Damian McGuckin [this message]

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