On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 9:52 AM Andrew MacLeod <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 2/4/26 11:35, David Malcolm wrote:
> > One of the difficulties I ran into when familiarizing myself with
> > value-range.{h,cc} is that the comments and classes refer to
> > representations of "ranges", but the implementation has grown beyond
> > mere ranges of values (such as with bitmasks and NaN-tracking).
> >
> > Arguably "range" could refer to the mathematical definition: the set
> > of possible outputs of a function, but I find it much clearer to think
> > of these classes as efficient representations of subsets of possible
> > values of a type.
> >
> > This patch updates various leading comments in a way that clarifies
> > the intent of these classes (for me, at least).
> >
> > Andrew: did I get all the details correct, and is this OK for trunk?
> > (assuming it bootstraps)
>
> The clarifications are fine with me...    Only the release managers can
> approve it for trunk however.
>
> If they don't want it checked it in now, I can add it to my tree of
> things for stage 1.

Comments changes/fixes are acceptable during stage 4 since comments
are considered documentation rather than code.  I thought this was
mentioned before but I can't find it.

Thanks,
Andrew


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> Andrew
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