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Re: [STDS-754] NaN encodings
The standard says:
6.2.1 NaN encodings in binary formats
[...]
For binary formats, the payload is encoded in the p-2 least
significant bits of the trailing significand field.
Shouldn't it say "binary *interchange* formats"?
(In particular one should be careful with the x87 extended precision,
whose format is similar to interchange formats, but does not have an
implicit leading significand bit of 1.)
That would be better, yes.
Mike
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