From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Sat Aug 9 16:30:03 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) id h79EU3sW039316 for sc22wg5-domo; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 16:30:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from Mail.Math.Princeton.EDU (mail.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.18.14]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h79ETuEc039306 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 16:29:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from adonev@Math.Princeton.EDU) Received: from atom (atom.Princeton.EDU [128.112.143.9]) (authenticated bits=0) by Mail.Math.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h79ETnvk009274 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 10:29:50 -0400 From: Aleksandar Donev Organization: Princeton University To: WG5 Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2928) clarification of technical intent in N1553 Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 10:29:49 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200308082210.h78MADv0033926@dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <200308082210.h78MADv0033926@dkuug.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308091029.49681.adonev@math.princeton.edu> Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk Robert Corbett wrote: > Does it not bother the Fortran committees that they are > approving a different syntax for reading and writing > formatted NaN values from the syntax proposed by the > IEEE floating-point committee? There is still no ratified convention for this (at least there wasn't at the last J3/WG5 meeting when this was done), and it will take the IEEE committee entirely too long to decide the final details to wait for them. One of the goals was to provide a lenient sent of rules that could accomodate more strict IEEE regulations, but I cannot say if we achieved this, not having seen the IEEE current proposal. Aleksandar