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Foil 24 Java Grande Forum Floating Point Proposals II

From aJava Grande and Pragmatic Programming Environments Invited Talk at ISCOPE 98, Santa Fe -- Dec 10 98. by Geoffrey Fox
Less critical are following niceties:
indigenous keyword specifies maximum precision format supported by hardware
anonymous {float, double, indigenous} specifies floating point format to be used in calculating expressions
  • C used to always use double internally
Also recommended IEEE floating point support library to get and set floating point flags and rounding modes
Need to implement strictfp version of Java Math libraries

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