[Gmp-commit] /var/hg/gmp: Rename IEEE P754
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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.
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* Initializing Floats::
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