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Signed-off-by: Bill Schmidt <wschmidt@linux.ibm.com>
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Bill Schmidt 4 years ago
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bits set to 1.</para>
</footnote>, is undefined for all vector elements.</para>
</note>
<para>&#160;</para>
<bridgehead xml:id="dbdoclet.50655240_43748">Decimal Floating-Point
(ISO TR 24732 Support)</bridgehead>
<para>The decimal floating-point data type is used to specify variables
@ -2925,7 +2924,6 @@ xml:id="dbdoclet.50655240_pgfId-1156194">
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<para>&#160;</para>
<bridgehead xml:id="dbdoclet.50655240_33603">IBM EXTENDED
PRECISION</bridgehead>
<table frame="all" pgwide="1">
@ -2986,7 +2984,6 @@ xml:id="dbdoclet.50655240_pgfId-1156194">
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<para>&#160;</para>
<bridgehead xml:id="dbdoclet.50655240_66797">IEEE BINARY 128 QUADRUPLE
PRECISION</bridgehead>
<table frame="all" pgwide="1">
@ -3100,14 +3097,12 @@ xml:id="dbdoclet.50655240_pgfId-1156194">
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<para>&#160;</para>
<bridgehead>IBM EXTENDED PRECISION &amp;&amp; IEEE BINARY 128 QUADRUPLE
PRECISION</bridgehead>
<para>Availability of the long double data type is subject to
conformance to a long double standard where the IBM EXTENDED PRECISION
format and the IEEE BINARY 128 QUADRUPLE PRECISION format are mutually
exclusive.</para>
<para>&#160;</para>
<bridgehead xml:id="dbdoclet.50655240_95080">IEEE BINARY 128 QUADRUPLE
PRECISION || IBM EXTENDED PRECISION</bridgehead>
<para>This ABI provides the following choices for implementation of
@ -3136,6 +3131,33 @@ xml:id="dbdoclet.50655240_pgfId-1156194">
long double ISO C type. However, this is not part of the C
standard.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem revisionflag="added">
<para>This implementation differs from the IEEE 754
Standard in the following ways:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The software support is restricted to
round-to-nearest mode. Programs that use extended
precision must ensure that this rounding mode is
in effect when extended-precision calculations are
performed.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>This implementation does not fully support
the IEEE special numbers NaN and INF. These values
are encoded in the high-order double value
only. The low-order value is not significant, but
the low-order value of an infinity must be
positive or negative zero.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>This implementation does not support the
IEEE status flags for overflow, underflow, and
other conditions. These flags have no meaning in
this format.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@ -3178,9 +3200,10 @@ xml:id="dbdoclet.50655240_pgfId-1156194">
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>This implementation differs from the IEEE 754 Standard in the
<para revisionflag="deleted">This implementation differs from
the IEEE 754 Standard in the
following ways:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist revisionflag="deleted">
<listitem>
<para>The software support is restricted to round-to-nearest mode.
Programs that use extended precision must ensure that this rounding

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