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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
1 Less critical are following niceties:
2 indigenous keyword specifies maximum precision format supported by hardware
3 anonymous {float, double, indigenous} specifies floating point format to be used in calculating expressions
  • C used to always use double internally
4 Also recommended IEEE floating point support library to get and set floating point flags and rounding modes
5 Need to implement strictfp version of Java Math libraries
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