Message104322
I'd prefer to drop the ExtendedContext completely. Reasons are:
1) _clamp, prec, emin and emax aren't set to IEEE754 values.
2) The use of 'extended' is decNumber specific (see
http://speleotrove.com/decimal/dncont.html ). In IEEE754
'extended' has yet another meaning (AFAICS).
I can see that it is awkward to remove it, but if there's consensus
I'd be willing to work on a patch.
Making clamp visible sounds fine to me. (Personally, I'd rather have
capitals non-visible.)
If we make Decimal{32,64,128} contexts available, we should document exactly how the arithmetic deviates from IEEE754. |
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2010-04-27 14:07:42 | skrah | set | recipients:
+ skrah, rhettinger, facundobatista, mark.dickinson |
2010-04-27 14:07:41 | skrah | set | messageid: <1272377261.93.0.576483464337.issue8540@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2010-04-27 14:07:40 | skrah | link | issue8540 messages |
2010-04-27 14:07:40 | skrah | create | |
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