J3/03-212r1 Date: 19 August 2003 To: J3 From: Dick Hendrickson Subject: Report I from subgroup Chapter 8 onwards: N1553 Re: WG5/N1553 J3 responses to WG5 paper N1553 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1553 Report I from subgroup Chapter 8 onwards Paper N1539 As per WG5 recommendation, no action taken on N1539 WG5 subgroup is of the opinion that there is no overriding reason for this technical change at a moment when no technical changes should be made. The issue could be reargued for the next standard. The constants will be superfluous then, but that's acceptable. Moreover, the objective set out in the first paragraph is not achieved ("inquire about the size of any storage unit defined by the standard"). Paper N1543 WG5 comments processed by J3/03-205R1 Paper N1530 Recommendation accepted as is, no action required by J3. Paper N1532 Subgroup recommends the following edits instead of the ones given in N1532 and J3/03-212 to improve interoperability with C: 228:30, Replace "The" with "When the input field is not an IEEE exceptional specification(10.6.1.2.1), the 230:17 "consists either of" change to "consists of optional blanks, followed by either of" 230:20 Change "." to "," and insert a new line with no indentation "optionally followed by blanks." 230:19 Replace "a processor dependent number of nonblank characters" by "zero or more alphanumeric characters". 230:23-25. Change the last sentence to read: "The NaN value is a quiet NaN if the only nonblank characters in the field are 'NAN' or 'NAN()', otherwise, the NaN value is processor-dependent."