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Re: Draft C bindings for IEEE 754-2008 part 4 now available
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:05:46 +0100
- Subject: Re: Draft C bindings for IEEE 754-2008 part 4 now available
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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 seems that some operations are allowed to be off
by an ulp or more, for instance, which I find rather surprising.)
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team