On 9/22/20 10:32 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Actually, POSIX already ripped (part of) the description from the C > standard: > > > Represents the floating-point status flags collectively, > > including any status the implementation associates with the flags. > > This part is in the C standard (and POSIX also has it). I think they probably have an agreement for this :-). > > A floating-point status flag is a system variable > > whose value is set (but never cleared) > > when a floating-point exception is raised, > > which occurs as a side-effect of > > exceptional floating-point arithmetic to provide auxiliary information. > > A floating-point control mode is a system variable whose > > value may be set by the user to affect > > the subsequent behavior of floating-point arithmetic. > > And this is from POSIX only. > > How would you go about it? Just quote POSIX (no need to mention the C standard when quoting, I think). > > Represents the floating-point status flags collectively, > > including any status the implementation associates with the flags. > POSIX describes a > > [s/A//] floating-point status flag [s/is/as] a system variable > > whose value is set (but never cleared) > > when a floating-point exception is raised, > > which occurs as a side-effect of > > exceptional floating-point arithmetic to provide auxiliary information. > According to POSIX, > > [s/A/a/] floating-point control mode is a system variable whose > > value may be set by the user to affect > > the subsequent behavior of floating-point arithmetic. I think so. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
