RFC: TS 18661-1 floating-point interfaces

[Joseph Myers]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> On 06/10/2016 08:58 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014 provides C interfaces for various required 
> > features of IEEE 754-2008, analogous to the support for IEEE 754-1985 
> > added in C99.
> 
> This looks good to me.

There's a question in there about grouping APIs for inclusion (all 
together versus particular well-defined groups potentially going in 
separately).

> The only thing I note is that you suggested implementation of all of
> TS 18661-1, but oddly absent from this plan are the additions to
> stdlib.h e.g. strfromd? Did I miss something?

Those are expected to be included in the preparations for float128 
support, like nextup and nextdown functions.

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Joseph S. Myers
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