8 Mar 17:04
[boost] Floating Point Utilities Review Result
From: John Maddock <john <at> johnmaddock.co.uk>
Subject: [boost] Floating Point Utilities Review Result
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.boost.announce, gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel, gmane.comp.lib.boost.user
Date: 2008-03-08 16:06:04 GMT
Subject: [boost] Floating Point Utilities Review Result
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.boost.announce, gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel, gmane.comp.lib.boost.user
Date: 2008-03-08 16:06:04 GMT
Floating Point Utilities Review Result. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There were 6 positive reviews and no negative ones, so Johan Rade's Floating Point Utility library has been accepted into Boost. The main issues and topics that came up for discussion were: 1) A couple of minor bugs were uncovered relating to signed NaN testing when using the SSE2 registers, and deserialising NaN's: both were fixed during the review period. 2) We had a discussion about the usefulness or otherwise of signed NaN's and the changesign function: Johan agreed to drop support for these as the signbit of NaN's is not considered part of the NaN payload and need not be preserved by the compiler, this could usefully be summarised in a rationale: especially now that negative NaN's are not formatted with a "-" sign? 3) JM made a few quite fruitless suggestions about optimising away calls to memcpy: this should be documented in a rationale to prevent JM from making the same mistake again(Continue reading)4) John Phillips raised the issue of finding these tools - making
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