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Foil 16 Floating-point Proposals

From Activities of the Java Grande Forum Numerics Working Group Java Grande Meeting with Sun Microsystems Menlo Park -- March 11 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Sun: widefp (default) & strictfp
  • widefp admits indiscriminant use of float- and double-extended
  • strictfp is current mode
JGF: default, strictfp, associativefp
  • default allows wide (15-bit) exponent range, fused multiply-add
  • associativefp admits associativity, more?

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