Draft C bindings for IEEE 754-2008 part 4 now available

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Jan 7 10:05:00 GMT 2014


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



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