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Re: C constant expressions proposals
"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk> writes:
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| But I see I didn't specify what happens for complex constants (a GNU
| extension), both integer and floating point, so I'll do that (i.e. they
| act as integer or floating point constants as appropriate), and explicitly
| say that integer complex arithmetic uses the usual formulas and overflows
| if they do (see bug 2995).
Thanks. As an aside note, LIA-3 is specifying Gauss integers,
i.e. integer complex type and arithmetics.
| I'll also make it so that you can't have
| address constants of complex integer type, which seems to be existing
| practice.
What are they used for?
-- Gaby