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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.02.2002241017150.17524@key0.esi.com.au>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:20:41 +1100 (AEDT)
From: Damian McGuckin <damianm@....com.au>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Min and Max of 2 Floating Point numbers

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020, Florian Weimer wrote:

> I don't think the new IEEE 754 version specifies the behavior of the
> fmax/fmin functions due to the way they implemented this change.  Do
> you have a publicly accessible reference?

Silly me. Yes, fmax and fmin stay functionally the same.
>
> For ISO C, there is a different proposal here:
>
>  <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2489.pdf>
>
> It preserves the existing behavior of fmax/fmin, as far as I can tell.

Yes it does. I got confused.

Apologies - Damian

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