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A comment on John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with something better. Parent comment

Re:John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with s... by dnautics on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:50AM (#20389111)
it doesn't happen much in practice, but the official IEEE spec is silent about it, so you can toss it into whatever bin contains 'undefined' behaviour of C.
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Re:John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with s... by zeckalpha on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:43AM (#20390807)
Are any C undefined behaviors explicitly undefined spec?
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