High-Level Language Implications of the Proposed IEEE Floating-Point Standard

Abstract

An IEEE Computer Society working group on floating-point arithmetic has recommended a standard for binary floating.point number formats, operations, and semantics. This paper, which has evolved in part during the deliberations of that committee, describes the significance to languages and, in particular, to FORTRAN and its Variants, of various novel features of the recommended standard. © 1982, ACM. All rights reserved.