[Cfp-interest 1925] action item: 754-2019 setpayload and setpayloadsig vs. sign bit
David Hough CFP
pcfp at oakapple.net
Thu Feb 18 17:38:39 PST 2021
The payload of a NaN is defined in 6.2.1 for binary interchange formats and 3.5
for decimal interchange formats. It's the T field in the significand.
The sign of the NaN is not part of the payload.
In 9.7, setpayload and setpayloadsig are defined to produce a NaN with
a specified payload. The sign bit of that NaN is not specified, as with
most operations that produce NaN results from numeric operands.
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