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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability
Date: 1996/11/22
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Matt says

"On the other hand, I think it is too strenuous and ill-advised for a language
to insist upon 100% full exact IEEE exception handling, as this
is far less often compatible with high performance and portability.
"

I think Matt may be confused here. neither 754 nor 854 require support
for floating-point exceptions. They require only the support of infinity
and Nan semantics (read the standard, this is a common misconception!)_