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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Why no socket package in the standard ?
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:44:54 +0200
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> I think most would say where's the IEEE Math standards 754-2008 before 
> adopting a BSD standard, IEEE 754 standard, have existed since 1985 
> before Ada 95, so why it is not include in Ada 2005 and beyond.

Does Ada really use the IEEE 754 floating point model?  I don't think
so---the RM allows optimizations which are generally frowned upon for
reasons I do not entirely understand (such as increasing the accuracy
of operations by reassociation).