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RE: Patch: Add BID decimal floating point format
- From: "Menezes, Evandro" <evandro dot menezes at amd dot com>
- To: "Menezes, Evandro" <evandro dot menezes at amd dot com>, "Florian Weimer" <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>, "Meissner, Michael" <michael dot meissner at amd dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Harle, Christophe" <christophe dot harle at amd dot com>, "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, bje at au1 dot ibm dot com, "Janis Johnson" <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:51:35 -0600
- Subject: RE: Patch: Add BID decimal floating point format
- References: <6096959DEF5C9447A6BF80BDC7EB9EDC06155C2C@SBOSEXMB1.amd.com> <87y7mjwb4y.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
> > Are DPD and BID universal terms? If not, it might make sense to
> > reference a definition (or provide one).
>
> The DPD and BID acronyms are extensively used in the 754r
> conference calls. Densely packed decimals, what DPD stands
> for, appears in the draft found at
> http://754r.ucbtest.org/drafts/754r.pdf. However, although
> both BID and DPD have been voted as valid decimal FP formats,
> there's no draft yet that mentions the former.
Although Wikipedia is usually not a good reference, members of the IEEE754r committee keep this entry up to date, where one can find references to both DPD and BID: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754r.
Here's evidence that BID and DPD are commonly used acronyms in the committee's meetings: http://www.validlab.com/754R/nonabelian.com/754/minutes/754/060719.
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Evandro Menezes AMD Austin, TX