On 4/29/11 11:39 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Robert Kern<robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote: ..
I have said nothing about decimal. I can requote the relevant portions of the IEEE-754 standard again, if you like.
Please do. I had a draft of IEEE-754 standard somewhere at some point, but not anymore. I rely on Kahan's notes at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/ieee754.ps .
(Section 7. "Exceptions") "The default response to an exception shall be to proceed without a trap." IEEE-854 has the same sentence. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco