Java Grande Forum Floating Point Proposals II

• 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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