Re: [TCLCORE] New TIP: 745: Functions from C11 - just curiosity

[Arjen M. <Arj...@de...>]

Hi Donal,

I was curious about these functions and stumbled on dim(), or in C fdim(). I know that function from FORTRAN 77 and it may even be older than that. I have never seen it used in practice, at least not that I can remember. What is the rationale for adding this function to the C standard? Do you have any idea?

Regards,

Arjen

From: Donal Fellows <don...@ma...>
Sent: zaterdag 3 januari 2026 17:14
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Subject: [TCLCORE] New TIP: 745: Functions from C11

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Hi everyone

I've been working on a new TIP with a collection of functions from C11 (well, mostly from C99 really) intended for Tcl 9.1.

https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/745.md
    C11 has many more standard functions than C89. We should give Tcl scripts access to that bounty.
There's quite a few functions there (see the TIP for the list), but their embeddings in Tcl are mostly trivial; I won't speculate as to which ones are useful; that's for others to determine within their own contexts. The only ones that aren't utterly trivial are:

  *   frexp
  *   modf
  *   remquo
Those three all logically return two values, so I've mapped them as Tcl commands (not functions) that return lists of two items, which is an almost trivial embedding. (Also, I've extended signbit to work with integers as well; it's the only one for which that makes sense.)

Donal.
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