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>(and the implementation can do anything it likes) or are IEEE exceptions There is an IEEE TR, which will be part of F2k. >Is a program which generates an exception in violation of the >standard That was the old arguement, once one is outside the scope of the Standard all bets are off. Various useful functionalities (e.g. extended precision registers, intervals, ieee arithmetic) make such transformations visible. One can argue that such things should always remain outside the standard. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%