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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>Perhaps it would require a new equivalent FP contract for ‘</span><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>SFLT_EVAL_METHOD</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>’ since ‘</span><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>FLT_EVAL_METHOD</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>’ specifically applies to ‘</span><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>float</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>’. These are the kind of details that would need to be thoroughly specified before such a thing could be considered for inclusion in any future Standard. Not a simple task </span><span style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Hubert Tong [mailto:hubert.reinterpretcast@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 16 June 2017 14:10<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>Of course, there is the inconsistency that ‘</span><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>short float</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>’ is not promoted to ‘</span><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>double</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>’ to perform arithmetic which is at variance with how ‘</span><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>float</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>’ is handled (though I do promote it to ‘</span><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>double</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>’ for passing as an argument to variadic functions such as ‘</span><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>printf</span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>’).</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal>My understanding is that `<span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>float</span>' arithmetic operations do not necessarily occur in the range and precision of `<span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>double</span>'. In particular, the usual arithmetic conversions admit `<span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>float</span>' as a result. My guess is that <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>FLT_EVAL_METHOD</span> would be a factor to consider for consistency.<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>