Re: Section J.5.13 incomplete?

From	Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Section J.5.13 incomplete?
Date	2018-10-04 11:17 -0700
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jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu writes:
> I noticed something while searching through the n1570.pdf for something else:
>
>>   J.5.13 Floating-point status flags
>> 1 If any floating-point status flags are set on normal termination
>>   after all calls to functions registered by the atexit function have
>>   been made (see 7.22.4.4), the implementation writes some diagnostics
>>   indicating the fact to the stderr stream, if it is still open,
>>
>>   J.5.14 Extra arguments for signal handlers
>
> Either that final comma should have been a period, or there are some
> words missing after that comma. Was this fixed in the final standard?
> Since J.5 is a non-normative section describing common extensions to C,
> this is only a minor defect.

The published C11 standard is the same.

IMHO that final comma should be a period.

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Section J.5.13 incomplete? jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu - 2018-10-04 09:21 -0700
  Re: Section J.5.13 incomplete? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-10-04 11:17 -0700
  Re: Section J.5.13 incomplete? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-10-04 11:20 -0700

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