Re: FP format, and test suite (was: [cc65] Floating point support?)

On 28 Sep 2004, at 10:31, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:

> This is another example of "never trust your teacher/Professor". ;-) He
> once told us that the order of the entries were not given by 754. I
> never checked for myself, but I trusted him. He even told us that this
> way is the most common, and that many sources would state it was the
> only one, but that this were not given by 754.
>
> While I do not have access to 754 (do not want to pay for it just to
> find out this thing),

If you're in university, have you checked the library? At the place I 
graduated they had a big stack of standards - also available 
electronically.

> BTW: If anyone wants to implemente IEEE 754 FP, he might want to check
> the test suite of http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/ieee/. ;-)

This is even better :-)

http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/

> BTW: 754 seems to be going through revisions, so it might change in the
> future.

I want to bet a small fortune that nothing relevant will change 
(current version was re-affirmed in 1991). It's a solid, high-quality, 
widely adapted standard; I've rarely heard people complain.

regards, Sidney

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