Re: A thought on implementation of literal functions, if they are accepted
John, P-1788:
I also quote an email from Paul Zimmermann to me and Vincent:
"GNU MPFR contains such conversions (both from binary precision-p
floating-point to
strings in any base <= 62, and from strings to binary f-p), with all
roundings
of IEEE-754. It can thus serve as a reference implementation too."
In any case, I'd like to encourage the development of reference
implementations
of our entire standard-to-be. With the "exception" of decorations, much
of the
work to do so might be gathering together and unifying existing packages.
Best regards,
Baker
On 06/20/2013 02:19 AM, John Pryce wrote:
On 19 Jun 2013, at 16:10, Michel Hack wrote:
Baker Kearfott wrote:
(In the Netlib listing, there is also the following link:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jhauser/arithmetic/softfloat.html
to a software implementation of the IEEE floating point standard.)
That link has restricted access, but Google "jhauser arithmetic"
finds www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html which has the info.
Thanks for this Michel. Hopefully it will help those writing a reference implementation.
John Pryce
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