Re: Encodeing of compressed intervals
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 09:05:13 -0700 (PDT) Dima wrote:
> Variant (c) can be interpreted as at Level 3 as (NaN,dec*DBL_MIN).
> If (c) is not attractive to you, I agree with your representation.
It is true that subnormals map directly to unsigned integers. The
trouble is that some platforms discourage subnormals. They may trap
and handle them in software (if they want to be 754-compliant), or
they may squash them to zero (if they don't care).
So -- please let's stop here, unless there are serious objections,
to allow Baker to have a completed document by the end of this week.
(Indeed, our Eastern hemisphere colleagues may have started their
weekend already.)
> If it is necessary to rollback decoration encoding from octet to
> small integer, I agree. Perhaps this should be done at Level 3
> instead of Level 4.
The way I wrote the paragraph on compressed interchange formats, we
don't have to roll back your octet-based decorations.
Level 3 is out of question here, because that would affect internal
representations, which we want to leave up to the implementation.
Michel.
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