Motion 24.02
Several people refer to the reasons given by Dan Zuras and Ian McIntosh
for voting NO. In all fairness, I should point out that those reasons
apply directly only to the initial version (24.01). Prof. Kulisch has
removed the really objectionable parts if you read the text with a legal
frame of mind -- but the tone is such that people have and will get the
wrong impression.
Early during the discussion I had proposed a much shorter description
that gets to the essence of the proposal; Hossam Fahmy referred to it,
so let me repeat it here: (The complete post was dated April 18)
Every (essential) IEEE-754 arithmetic operation shall be provided
in a form with an explicit rounding direction, in addition to the
usual forms that respect a static global rounding direction. All
rounding modes provided for a given radix shall also be supported
in this manner.
Unfortunately there was essentially no further discussion after Prof.
Kulisch posted version 24.02 on April 29, as we were absorbed in the
discussion about decorations...
I'm deferring my vote until I have read the motion again in detail;
I don't have easy access to it from where I am now.
Michel.
---Sent: 2011-05-14 13:31:41 UTC