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- From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives
- Subject: [comp.compilers] public review period for Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 1
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- Date: 14 Dec 1992 08:16:54 GMT
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.compilers/public-review-period-for-Language-Independent-Arithmetic-Part-1
-
- Serious developers and implementers of compilers for numeric software
- should take a look at the draft international Language Independent
- Arithmetic standard, which is currently undergoing public review. You can
- FTP a copy from crl.dec.com in the file pub/misc/lia-1-v40-cb.ps.Z. The
- following announcement from ANSI, scheduled for publication in the 12
- November issue of ANSI Action, tells you how to make official comments
- about the draft standard in the US.
- _____
-
- ANSI public review period for
- Language Independent Arithmetic, Part 1 (LIA-1)
- November 13, 1992 - January 12, 1993
- (comments by January 5, 1993 please)
-
- Those who wish to comment on the draft standard and wish a response need
- to send hardcopy to:
-
- X3 Secretariat
- Attn: Monica Vago
- Suite 200 - 1250 Eye Street, NW
- Washington, DC 20005
-
- with an additional copy to:
-
- ANSI
- Attn: BSR
- 11 West 42nd Street, 13th Floor
- New York, NY 10036
-
- ANSI committee X3T2 has the responsibility of formulating the US position
- on LIA-1 as an international standard. In order to be of use in
- formulating that position, comments must be received before the next X3T2
- meeting on January 5. Although electronic submissions have no official
- standing with ANSI, it would greatly help the work of X3T2 to have
- electronic copy as well. Send them to the X3T2 committee chairman, Mark
- Hamilton (mah@netwise.com).
-
- X3T2 is a technical committee. Comments should be technical in nature and
- recommend specific changes to the draft that would meet objections raised.
- Personal attacks and insults, aside from being ill-mannered and
- unprofessional, tend to debase any technical merit the comment might
- otherwise have.
- [If you have any interest in floating point at all, take a look at this
- document. Many (including me) believe that it is a major attempt to solve
- the wrong problem and in its current form is probably worse than no standard
- at all. -John]
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