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Foil 25 Summary of Discussion

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
Floating-point model in Java 1.2
  • strictfp modifier added (no widefp)
  • default
    • allow wide exponent (15 bit) only
    • requirement for consistent use for anonymous variables leads to VM problems, so dropped
    • no FMA

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