Notes for meeting at Inter in Sunnyvale at 1:00 on Tuesday 9/7/04. Jeff Kidder hosted us in room 209. Prof Kahan, & Dan Zuras attended. We began with detailed edits of Annex Z. We talked about the Chudnovsky letter next. This led to a discussion of double products, reverse bits, et al. As well as ponies, dogs, & things we'd all like to see in our architectures like add with carry. Prof Kahan intends to respond to the Chudnovsky's this weekend. We went back to Annex Z & discussed rationale for arbitrary precision arithmetic. We also covered many other topics not worthy of note. www.jpsearch.net/try_mpfr.html - for MPFR calculator. We next decided to look over Dave's debug.pdf Dave: There is a sentance "The debugger should be able to continue execution as if no exception had not been signaled." We believe you meant to say that AFTER an exception has been handled one should be able to continue the execution of a program as if the exception had not happened. We also don't understand what is intended by the paragraph beginning with "Debuggers should be able to use signalling NaNs to break...". Agenda for Thursday: Same bat channel. Same bat time. Let's focus on examples of alternate exception handling. On David's list of questions: We should make a pass through the caller/ callee issues to see if they could pass muster in the full committee. Then, I had to leave early.