Second Draft "Unsafe fp optimizations" project description.

dewar@gnat.com dewar@gnat.com
Tue Aug 7 19:05:00 GMT 2001


<<While it's true that IEEE754 doesn't explain how it maps onto high
level languages, this is at least partly because IEEE754 predates the
C standard.
>>

I don't think that's the case. After all IEEE-754 makes no attempt to 
describe the mapping of Fortran either. Basically this standard was not
in the business of high level language considerations at all.



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