This is the mail archive of the
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
mailing list for the glibc project.
Re: Draft C bindings for IEEE 754-2008 part 4 now available
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:09:57 +0000
- Subject: Re: Draft C bindings for IEEE 754-2008 part 4 now available
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1401041812480 dot 26743 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <52CBD17A dot 50403 at redhat dot com>
On 01/07/2014 10:05 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 01/04/2014 07:21 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>
>> FYI: a draft set of C bindings for additional floating-point functions
>> from IEEE 754-2008 are now available (draft TS 18661-4):
>
> Is there an accurate summary of IEEE 754-2008 available online?
>
> I'm asking because IEEE 754 is widely quoted, but nobody really seems to
> know what's in it.
It's proprietary.
> (It seems that some operations are allowed to be off
> by an ulp or more, for instance, which I find rather surprising.)
Not exactly. I wonder if you should just buy a copy and expense it.
Andrew.