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- From: tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
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- Subject: Re: fast block zeroing, how defined?
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 15:49:20 GMT
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- In-reply-to: msb@sq.com's message of Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:22:24 GMT
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- In article <1996Feb16.082224.16087@sq.com> msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
- writes:
- <snip>
- "It has been decided" refers to the official response to Defect
- Report 67, contained in Record of Response 2 and Technical Corri-
- gendum 2. As far as I know, RR2/TC2 has still not been published,
- and I have no idea what changes may have been made in response to
- comments made through national bodies during balloting.
-
- In the draft version that was balloted on, it does state that some
- integral types can have unused bits; the term defined to refer to these
- bits is, unfortunately, "holes". The draft states that they "do not
- participate in forming the value of an object"; that is, they must
- simply be ignored, rather than being possibly used for parity.
-
- I think it would be far better to clarify it in a TC rather than
- muddle it up with another RR: but, does a parity bit participate in
- forming the `value' of an object? It certainly participates in the
- validity of an object, which can be rephrased as it participates in
- the existence of the value of the object, but does the word `value'
- encompass the meaning `existence of value'?
-
- I think this should be clarified. I see your logic, but am not
- completely convinced by it. (Maybe, that itself is bad news: when the
- language of the standard gets burdened so much that I can see your
- logic, and not accept it, maybe, then it is time to make things
- clearer in the standard itself.)
-
- Cheers
- Tanmoy
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