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Re: mapping 754R to specific languages
Guillaume Melquiond <guillaume.melquiond@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As far as I know, the 754R draft does not require a user to be able to
perform floating-point computations in every single point of a program.
If floating-point operations happen to be unsafe when used in a
destructor, is that in any way incompatible with the 754R draft?
The C++ standard does. Even if it were not incompatible with the
IEEE 754R draft, that would merely mean that the draft is incompatible
with C++.
I understand your first sentence as meaning that the C++ standard does
require a user to be able to perform floating-point computations (with
754R-compliant behavior, that's what this mailing-list is about) in
every single point of a program. Which is obviously not what you meant.
Why not? It is precisely what users will understand by IEEE 754R
support in C++.
And I don't understand your second sentence either, as I'm a bit
confused by the implication: not incompatible means incompatible (a
missing word?) Could you please clarify? Thanks.
Sorry. The first reference was to your proposal, which you may be
right is not incompatible with the IEEE 754R draft.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
Email: nmm1@xxxxxxxxx
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