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| author | Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> | 2024-05-08 16:55:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> | 2024-05-21 10:25:46 +0200 |
| commit | c35cad016b2a5bc71fa2330f26e35afdef327ccc (patch) | |
| tree | 01d9c7b3302bad5ceaabcf4c79de8619e9bbe74a | |
| parent | 3c1e22372d898a7e603bf62aee8036d3c82ec7c0 (diff) | |
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manual: clarify defintions of floating point exponent bounds (bug 31518)
For decimal exponent bounds the range is inclusive, for binary exponent
bounds the range is exclusive.
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/lang.texi | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/manual/lang.texi b/manual/lang.texi index 40cd9dd..cd90ff6 100644 --- a/manual/lang.texi +++ b/manual/lang.texi @@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@ macros are supposed to be at least @code{10}. @standards{C90, float.h} This is the smallest possible exponent value for type @code{float}. More precisely, it is the minimum negative integer such that the value -@code{FLT_RADIX} raised to this power minus 1 can be represented as a +@code{FLT_RADIX} raised to one less than this power can be represented as a normalized floating point number of type @code{float}. @item DBL_MIN_EXP @@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ These are similar to @code{FLT_MIN_EXP}, but for the data types @item FLT_MIN_10_EXP @standards{C90, float.h} This is the minimum negative integer such that @code{10} raised to this -power minus 1 can be represented as a normalized floating point number +power can be represented as a normalized floating point number of type @code{float}. This is supposed to be @code{-37} or even less. @item DBL_MIN_10_EXP @@ -1091,8 +1091,8 @@ These are similar to @code{FLT_MIN_10_EXP}, but for the data types @standards{C90, float.h} This is the largest possible exponent value for type @code{float}. More precisely, this is the maximum positive integer such that value -@code{FLT_RADIX} raised to this power minus 1 can be represented as a -floating point number of type @code{float}. +@code{FLT_RADIX} raised to one less than this power can be represented as a +finite floating point number of type @code{float}. @item DBL_MAX_EXP @itemx LDBL_MAX_EXP @@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ These are similar to @code{FLT_MAX_EXP}, but for the data types @item FLT_MAX_10_EXP @standards{C90, float.h} This is the maximum positive integer such that @code{10} raised to this -power minus 1 can be represented as a normalized floating point number +power can be represented as a finite floating point number of type @code{float}. This is supposed to be at least @code{37}. @item DBL_MAX_10_EXP |