[Gmp-commit] /var/hg/gmp: Rename IEEE P754

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Sat Aug 19 23:11:24 CEST 2023


details:   /var/hg/gmp/rev/59d9a8971b76
changeset: 18435:59d9a8971b76
user:      Marc Glisse <marc.glisse at inria.fr>
date:      Sat Aug 19 23:11:03 2023 +0200
description:
Rename IEEE P754

diffstat:

 ChangeLog    |  4 ++++
 doc/gmp.texi |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diffs (30 lines):

diff -r b985fb5f5a0a -r 59d9a8971b76 ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog	Sat Aug 19 19:40:19 2023 +0200
+++ b/ChangeLog	Sat Aug 19 23:11:03 2023 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2023-08-19  Marc Glisse  <marc.glisse at inria.fr>
+
+	* doc/gmp.texi: Rename IEEE P754.
+
 2023-07-31  Torbjörn Granlund  <tg at gmplib.org>
 
 	* mpn/s390_64/z13: Further improve z13 asm code, adding	special code
diff -r b985fb5f5a0a -r 59d9a8971b76 doc/gmp.texi
--- a/doc/gmp.texi	Sat Aug 19 19:40:19 2023 +0200
+++ b/doc/gmp.texi	Sat Aug 19 23:11:03 2023 +0200
@@ -4713,13 +4713,13 @@
 results will be unpredictable.
 
 Note that the @code{mpf} functions are @emph{not} intended as a smooth
-extension to IEEE P754 arithmetic.  In particular results obtained on one
+extension to IEEE 754 arithmetic.  In particular results obtained on one
 computer often differ from the results on a computer with a different word
 size.
 
 New projects should consider using the GMP extension library MPFR
 (@url{https://www.mpfr.org/}) instead.  MPFR provides well-defined precision and
-accurate rounding, and thereby naturally extends IEEE P754.
+accurate rounding, and thereby naturally extends IEEE 754-2019.
 
 @menu
 * Initializing Floats::


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