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Re: basic formats
On 2009-03-29 00:17:32 -0400, Michel Hack wrote:
In the final standard arithmetic on these narrow formats (if supported)
is optional; the only required operations are conversions to and from
the supported basic formats.
OK, I think the standard is not really clear about that, i.e. whether
a format may be used to represent floating-point operands or results
is a choice done by the user or the implementation.
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