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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: S'Is_nan or S'Is_inf?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:20:47 +0200
Date: 2010-07-20T18:20:44+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wyq3lz4ykb20$.r9gox3m7dv1x$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Xns9DBB67C3AA843WarrensBlatherings@81.169.183.62

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:12:01 +0000 (UTC), Warren wrote:

> I'm not personally
> a fan of these special IEEE values, but they crop up in 3rd party
> libraries like the GSL etc. or in the reading of binary values from
> a file.

This was a motivation behind

   http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/components.htm#IEEE_754
 
Inputs and outputs in IEEE 754 representations can be converted to and from
Ada floating-point types in a portable way. Within the program you forget
about IEEE.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



      reply	other threads:[~2010-07-20 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-15 21:00 S'Is_nan or S'Is_inf? Warren
2010-07-15 21:30 ` Rod Chapman
2010-07-15 22:03   ` Simon Wright
2010-07-15 21:42 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-07-15 22:07 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-16  8:42   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-16 17:06     ` Warren
2010-07-16 19:39       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-16 22:35     ` Warren
2010-07-17  6:24       ` Simon Wright
2010-07-19 17:04         ` Warren
2010-07-17  7:40       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-19 17:18         ` Warren
2010-07-19 23:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-07-20 14:12   ` Warren
2010-07-20 16:20     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
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