I'd like to direct folks' attention to the IEEE-utils package on hackage
[1], which Matt Morrow started and I have made a few additions to. There are
bindings to set and check the rounding mode, as well as check and clear the
exception register. On top of that I've built a very experimental
It is an interesting question: can IEEE floating point be done purely
while preserving the essential features. I've not looked very far so I
don't know how far people have looked into this before.
Not sure. My doubts are mainly on interference between threads. If a thread
can keep its FP state
On 2008 October 16 Thursday, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 01:24 +0200, Ariel J. Birnbaum wrote:
Floating point operations, at least by IEEE754, depend on environmental
settings like the current rounding mode. They may modify state, like the
sticky bits that indicate an
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 05:21:04 John Dorsey wrote:
Should all floating point numerals be in the IO Monad?
I'm deviating from the thread's topic, but I tend to agree with this one.
Maybe not IO directly, but some kind of STM-style monad, at least (that is,
FP operations are composable but
On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 01:24 +0200, Ariel J. Birnbaum wrote:
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 05:21:04 John Dorsey wrote:
Should all floating point numerals be in the IO Monad?
I'm deviating from the thread's topic, but I tend to agree with this one.
Maybe not IO directly, but some kind of
