Floating-point Proposals

• 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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