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Re: Motion 4: P1788 on non-754?

Corliss, George schrieb:
I do not have better wording to suggest,
I think it will not be difficult to make everything independent of IEEE-754. Indeed, the Vienna Proposal does exactly this. 

Thus I propose to modify the motion text as follows:


===Motion text===
P1788 strives to be independent of IEEE-754 as far as meaningful,
but assumes a computer architectures that is 754-compliant to the
extent this is necessary for a meaningful interpretation.


Arnold Neumaier