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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients mark.dickinson, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters
Date 2018-03-02.17:28:41
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> What if return 80-bit infinities and NaN as 64-bit infinities and NaN and raise an error in the case of finite numbers overflow?

That's certainly reasonable from a pure floating-point-conversion perspective: it's exactly what I'd expect a general purpose extended-precision to double-precision converter to do.
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