Talk:Ieee arithmetic

Most probably C compilers inline functions, but just to be sure, I'd convert them into the macros:

#define to_raw_bits(d) *((EIF_NATURAL_64*)&(d))
 
#define eif_is_nan_bits(value) ((value & ~RTU64C(0x8000000000000000)) > RTU64C(0x7ff0000000000000))
 
#define eif_is_nan(v) ((*((EIF_NATURAL_64 *)&(v)) & ~RTU64C(0x8000000000000000)) > RTU64C(0x7ff0000000000000))

Does it affect the benchmarks?

--manus 17:59, 3 February 2010 (UTC) Actually it does not on Windows for sure, I've verified that it was inlined. But you are right that those could be simply defined as macros.

--manus 20:25, 3 February 2010 (UTC) I've done again some of the benchmarks and on windows at least, some of them are slower when I use a macro. I'm no sure why I haven't looked at the generated assembly code.

--Colin-adams 14:48, 3 February 2010 (UTC) Not IEEE arithmetic, nor maths, NaN = NaN is never true. And placing NaNs in a sort order isn't write either - REAL_32/64 are not totally ordered types.

--manus 17:57, 3 February 2010 (UTC) How do you solve the problem of assertions then in ARRAY.put for example?

--Alexander Kogtenkov 20:01, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

• Does it mean that REAL_GENERAL should inherit PART_COMPARABLE rather than COMPARABLE?
• Do we need 2 equality queries: one that tells two objects represent the same value (it is used to ensure copy does what is expected, and it is used to implement ~) and the other one that tells that the numbers are equal in terms of ordering relation of (PART_)COMPARABLE?

--Colin-adams 12:37, 4 February 2010 (UTC): Postcondition for {ARRAY}.put should read:

inserted: v = v  implies (item (i) = v)
undefined_case: v /= V implies (item (i) /= item (1))

Numeric equality

I have previously suggested separating the notion of numerical equality and object equality. Eric said that we use = for three different notions, i think, but I don't remember what these were.

Certainly PART_COMPARABLE is better than COMPARABLE for IEEE math types. I'm not sure if that is sufficient or not. --Colin-adams 12:42, 4 February 2010 (UTC)