Keith Bierman ADT/QED wrote:
> >(and the implementation can do anything it likes) or are IEEE exceptions
>
> There is an IEEE TR, which will be part of F2k.
Ah, yes, but as Jim Giles already remarked, that will only spark more
questions.
I think IEEE conformance as proposed in the TR (and as it is currently
in the F2K draft) is simply incompatible with the looseness Fortran
treated (floating point) computations earlier on.
IMNSHO, the only way to have both IEEE conformant computations specified
by F2K and not throw away the expectations of Fortran users of the past
4 decades is to allow the processor a priori knowledge about the
behaviour the user expects (i.e. a compile time switch).
Cheers,
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