| William M. Klein 2005-08-24, 6:59 pm |
| As a follow-up to ongoing threads (cross-posted between comp.lang. pl1 and
comp.lang.fortran) concerning "integer" and "fixed-point" data types (in PL/I,
Fortran, and other programming languages), I thought I would alert those of you
are not already aware of it that there is ongoing work to "revise" the IEEE 754
floating point specification to add (include) 3 new "decimal" floating-point
data types and to define the related "decimal arithmetic".
For an overview of the revision, see:
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/
or
http://ieee-754r.clonewars.ipupdater.com/
For some of the papers currently out (or about to be out) for balloting, see:
http://754r.ucbtest.org/ballots/
From:
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/...ml#mailing-list
"There is a mailing list associated with the revision: stds-754@ieee.org. To
join the list, send the message text "subscribe stds-754" to
listserv@listserv.ieee.org. Most work and debate occurs at physical meetings,
but feedback and discussions on the mailing list provide crucial input."
--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
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