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On 11/07/2016 07:00 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
On Sun, 6 Nov 2016, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:The only sensible way to write the psABI is for it to say "this is how to pass an 80 or 128 bit floating point value." The psABI can't sayI would advise using IEEE 754-2008 names in psABIs where available (e.g. binary128). (Of course you need to deal with the non-IEEE types such as x86 extended precision, but IEEE names are standard and unambiguous up to endianness for binary interchange formats, and unambiguous up to endianness and BID / DPD choice for decimal interchange formats.)
Most people in the community don't have access to IEEE 754-2008 and therefore will not know what these terms mean (and considering how much stuff has been made up about IEEE 754 due to its secretive nature, I wouldn't want to rely on a paraphrase).
Florian
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