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ANSI/IEEE Std 754-2019
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<b>Scope:</b>
The IEEE 754-2008 standard expired in 2019, so a minor revision
was undertaken,
to determine a set of relatively
non-controversial upward-compatible
editorial corrections and clarifications and minor enhancements
to the 2008 standard.
754-2019 was approved by IEEE Standards Board on 13 June 2019 and
published in July 2019.
David Hough was chair, Mike Cowlishaw was editor.
The base document was the technical content of ANSI/IEEE Std 754-2008.
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Subsequently, IEEE 754-2019 has been adopted by IEC
through ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25 and published as ISO/IEC 60559:2020.
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The permanent archival site for the 754-2019 development is in
<a href="http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/msc/ANSI_IEEE-Std-754-2019">
the MSC page</a>.
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<a href="background">
<b>Background documents</b></a>
are non-normative items intended to answer questions
about the sponsor ballot draft's
scope, intent, additions, changes, and motivations.
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A historical overview was published in
<a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2019/12/08909942/1f8KFWxbTCU">
December 2019 IEEE Computer</a>.
Note that one sentence was accidentally duplicated -
in the section headed "2008", the first and third paragraphs begin
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IEEE Standard 754-1985 was adopted in whole or in part by most
microprocessor architectures as they began to incorporate hardware
floating-point instructions.
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That sentence is correct and in context in the first paragraph,
but out of context and inappropriate in the third paragraph, so ignore it.
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754-2019 is now in maintenance mode, and will expire in 2029.
So another revision effort might soon commence, perhaps
with more ambitious goals.
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<b>Mailing list:</b>
stds-754@ieee.org will be used to discuss issues arising during
this activity and to conduct ballots as needed.
If you want to get on stds-754@ieee.org, it's pretty simple; mail to:
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STDS-754-subscribe-request@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
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<a href="https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=stds-754">
<b>Mailing list archives:</b></a>.
You will need to register and get a listserv password first.
Then go to "Subscriber's Corner".
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<a href="minutes">
<b>Teleconference agendas and minutes</b></a>.
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<a href="pnp/pnp-draft.pdf">
<b>Working group policies and procedures</b></a>
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<a href="PAR.pdf">
<b>Working group PAR approved 3 Sep 2015</b></a>
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