The maxim 'nothing avails but perfection' may be spelt shorter, PARALYSIS - Winston Churchill.
From Dan Zuras:
A number of issues were left pending for web vote during the
month until the next meeting. They may be found at:
http://754r.ucbtest.org/ballots/
Those who are eligible to vote this month are the 31 members
listed in the first two groups of the current roster which
may be found at:
http://nonabelian.com/754/roster0602
In addition, after the meeting adjourned, Prof Kahan asked me
to include the following text in the minutes by reference:
http://nonabelian.com/754/RNDGMODE.TXT
It is a short summary of the issues surrounding dynamic versus
static rounding. I recommend it to you.
| Start Date | Stop Date | Yes-No | Title | Ballot | Proposal | Last Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 754R Active Ballot Propositions adopting or changing 754R's working draft | ||||||
| Feb 16 | Mar 13 | 3-17 | Adopt 754p0 - 2006 Feb 14 8:00 as 754R base document and working draft for further development. | 754p.html | 754p.pdf | Feb 14 |
| 754R Active Ballot Resolutions for future direction; these do not directly change any draft | ||||||
| Feb 16 | Mar 13 | 16-0 | Resolved: 754R's final product should specify a binary 128-bit "quad" format. | quad.html | ||
| Feb 16 | Mar 13 | 16-0 | Resolved: 754R's final product should specify a fused multiply-add. | fma.html | ||
| Feb 16 | Mar 13 | 14-0 | Resolved: 754R's final product should specify decimal floating-point formats and arithmetic. | decimal.html | ||
| Feb 16 | Mar 13 | 11-0 | Resolved: 754R's final product should incorporate section 5.7 Comparisons from http://754r.ucbtest.org/drafts/754r.pdf. | conditional.html | ||
| Feb 16 | Mar 13 | 5-4 | Resolved: 754R's final product should specify predictable and controllable expression evaluation. | expression.html | ||
| Feb 16 | Mar 13 | 3-7 | Resolved: 754R's final product should specify alternate exception handling mechanisms in lieu of 754's Trapping. | alternate.html | ||
| Feb 16 | Mar 13 | 8-2 | Resolved: 754R's final product should not require that non-default modes must be implicitly imported from separately-compiled outer scopes. | modes.html | ||
| Feb 16 | Mar 13 | 7-4 | Resolved: 754R's final product should not require that that exception-occurred status be implicitly exported to separately-compiled outer scopes. | flags.html | ||
| 754R Passed Ballot Propositions | ||||||
| 754R Failed Ballot Propositions | ||||||
| Feb 15 | Policies and Procedures | pnp-0.95.html | Jan 22 |