On Mon, 28 May 2007, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Joseph, Richard -- > > As C maintainers, have either of you looked at Chao-Ying's fixed-point > branch?
I haven't examined it. When the branch maintainers consider it ready to merge I hope a proposal along the lines of the DFP one <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg01128.html> will be posted (see also subsequent discussion in that thread, and on the submitted patches). > (a) whether implementing N1169 is likely to be dangerous, in the sense > that the committee might eventually adopt a substantially conflicting > version of the specification, N1169 is the current version, with various defects addressed relative to the published TR18037 but has not yet been published as a new revision of the TR because of ISO bureaucracy. (To quote the draft London minutes, "TR 18037 (embedded) has had all defects addressed. SC 22 secretariat is requiring a NWI ballot for revising this, which is against the JTC 1 procedures.") If any of this is included in (an Annex to) C1x, it remains to be seen if the committee will follow the expressed principle of standardising existing practice without changing it incompatibly. If it just moves from being a TR to being an IS, I wouldn't expect problems with changes there. -- Joseph S. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
