Kahan's Floating Point Test

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Stephen L Moshier wrote:

> The newer C99 standard includes pragmas and support to elaborate the
> IEEE flags.  I started a GCC implementation of them, posted some
> patches and a plea for comments a year and a half ago, and there was

Please re-send these patches (updated to current mainline).  I'm not
qualified to review or approve those parts of the implementation outside
the C front end, but I'll try to look at them and comment, especially if
they include documentation (of cases where something is
implementation-defined, and of any GCC extensions) and testcases for the
testsuite (gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/, probably).

> so little interest that I dropped the subject.  The search engine
> indicates there has been no mention since then on the GCC mailing
> lists of any activity to implement the C99 pragmas.

These pragmas aren't part of the preprocessor and are outside my
competence, and not much else has been done lately in the way of C99
implementation (a few important bits have been done by other people
though, e.g. flexible array members and C99 designated initializers) so
aren't within the scope of any recent C99 implementation work.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk