Java numerics issue

[Fred J. Tydeman]

>A related problem that was never resolved, is the standarization of the
>Math library which is part of the Java standard. I think we decided that
>Sun would eventually provide a reference implementation for these in Java.
>I don't think there is a satisfactory answer for that one. 

FPCE (Floating-Point C Extensions) of C9X (the revision of C currently in
progress) has defined behaviour of the math library functions for IEEE-754 
values and exception flags.

LIA-2 (Language Independent Arithmetic Part 2: Elementary numerical 
functions) has accuracy requirements on the math library functions
as well as behaviour for exception cases.


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