Re: YES P1788/M0029.02:Level3-InterfaceOnly, *BUT*
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Michel Hack <hack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Lee Winter wrote:
>> I believe the exclusion of overflows of the same sign is unnecessary
>> for the interchange format.
>
> I suppose you mean two infinities of the same sign. Infinities may
> indeed be the result of containing overflow, but they can also simply
> mean "unbounded".
What IEEE-754 operation produces an "unbounded" result from numeric
inputs? AFAIK there are none.
> Decorations should tell these cases apart. (In 754
> it is the overflow flag that does the job -- unfortunately globally.)
By the term "overflow flag" do you mean the overflow exception?
Lee Winter
NP Engineering
Nashua, New Hampshire
United States of America