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

[Andrew Haley]

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.