Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Decimal Floating Point Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:13:18 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 24 Message-ID: <878s04fdm9.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: <2bff66f3-391b-4785-9c43-1f056106d6a1n@googlegroups.com> <993af611-3442-412b-8fc8-2e1d081f0d36n@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="0e9d3ba203e9f9b63058110a571a6640"; logging-data="28493"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Fx3OQ6IzUW5pfy7bGKgOn" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wDy16NTjD7EhUc5q0uNkWBFZZf0= sha1:85L7ZliJsgVKq/brJQ35VE6spxM= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:162719 Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes: > In comp.lang.c, James Kuyper wrote: >> On 9/10/21 11:44 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote: >>> I believe Fabian was referring to the IEEE standard, not the C standard. >> Yes, but because they are not in the C standard, they're not C standard >> types, which means that the best place to ask questions about them is >> not this newsgroup. > > I'm reading this in comp.lang.c and I look at the Newsgroups header and > don't see a crosspost to comp.std.c so I'm wondering why you believe > "not C Standard ... not this newsgroup". Because the general (though not universal) consensus is that comp.lang.c is for discussion of the C language as defined by the standard, and comp.std.c is for discussion of the standard itself as a document. As it happens, decimal floating-point *is* part of the latest draft standard, so it's topical here. Not everyone in the discussion was aware of that. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com Working, but not speaking, for Philips void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */