<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div align="center"><div style="text-align: -webkit-center; "><div style="text-align: left; ">At our July meeting we discussed the fact that whereas Table 1 gives a binding between IEC 60559 and binary FP for C, we have no such binding for decimal FP:</div><div style="text-align: left; "><blockquote type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(21, 99, 17); ">PDF page 14, paragraph about 6.4.4.2#5: Do we need to add: "Decimal </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(21, 99, 17); ">floating-point constants shall be correctly rounded."?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(16, 73, 188); ">if not already covered - we might want to adapt, or refer to, the operation binding table in Part 1, e.g., </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(16, 73, 188); ">The binding of 60559 operations to C decimal operation is analogous to the binding in Part 1 for binary operations, with these exceptions: … </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(16, 73, 188); ">REVISIT</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p> </o:p></span>try exceptions approach - ISSUE</p></blockquote></div></div></div><div align="center" style="text-align: left; ">I posted a draft to deal with this at <a href="http://wiki.edg.com/twiki/pub/CFP/WebHome/Table_1_reference_for_decimal_binding.pdf">http://wiki.edg.com/twiki/pub/CFP/WebHome/Table_1_reference_for_decimal_binding.pdf</a>. Corrections and comments welcome. (Yesterday I sent the draft in an email message, but it is still being held because it is too long.)</div><div align="center" style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">Jim</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: left; "><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>