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From: Gabriel Dos Reis (gdr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-07 09:42:13


Guillaume Melquiond <gmelquio_at_[hidden]> writes:

| No, I don't read too much into the Standard.

You said

  because the Standard decided the only interesting types are float,
  double and long double

which is untrue.

| I just find unusable a part
| of a library whose behavior is not only "unspecified" by the Standard but
| also "not required to [be] documented" by the implementation.

Oh, "unspecifed" means all that. But it is not the same as "undefined
behaviour". It is wording to say that it is up to the implementation
to document whether it supports a particular extension. Give it a
little bit of thought.

-- Gaby


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