[Cfp-interest] WG14 IEEE 754-C binding meeting minutes 2015/02/18

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:01:48 -0500 Ian McIntosh wrote:
>
>For #3 "Expressions of FP constants done at translation time, yet result is
>inexact, so depends upon rounding mode.", the IBM POWER XL and z/OS
>compilers have an option -y to control which rounding mode to use for
>expressions evaluated at compile time.  Does that meet the requirement?
>

No, if I read you correctly.  I read that as a fixed
static rounding mode to use at translation time.

I am thinking of different parts of the code running
under different rounding modes.  Hence, the same 
expression of FP constants evaluates to different values
in different parts of the code.

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