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Floating point operations

IEEE requirements

All arithmetic computations generated by the C compiler strictly conform to IEEE requirements. The following is a discussion of some topics where the C compilation system falls short of completely meeting the ANSI/IEEE Standard 754-1985 requirements or the spirit of the requirements.


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