Re: C2124 is most disrespectful of IEEE floating point arithmetic

From: "Abdo Haji-Ali" <ahali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:37:36 +0200

"Dr Pizza" <DrPizza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What are you talking about? According to the mathematical rules for
floating point numbers (which are NOT the rules for real numbers) the
result is both defined and representable.

Agreed... However, C++ standards says that if the expression is not
*mathematically* defined the behavior is undefined
No floating point or IEEE standard is involved in this statement...

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Abdo Haji-Ali
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