J3/99-167r1

Date:	 9th June 1999
To:	 J3
From:	 Dick Hendrickson and John Reid
Subject: Edits re IEEE modules (cont)


We propose the following edits:

20. [xv:20] After "7, 13" add ", 15".
[xvi:39+] Add paragraph:
Section 15 (Exceptions and IEEE arithmetic) describes intrinsic modules
to provide support for the five exceptions of the IEEE standard for
floating-point arithmetic and for other features of the IEEE standard.
A processor is permitted to provide partial support; there are facilities
for enquiring about which features are supported or for requiring support
of certain features.
[381:1-2] Change title to "Exceptions and IEEE arithmetic".


21. [143:23+] Add new item:(5a) A reference to the transformational function IEEE_SELECTED_REAL_KIND
from the intrinsic module IEEE_ARITHMETIC, where each argument is an
initialization expression.


22. [385:37]. Delete the sentence "The dummy arguments of the functions
have INTENT(IN)."

23. [387:12+] Add:
In this section, the procedures are described in detail. The procedure
names are generic and are not specific. All the functions are pure.
In the examples, it is assumed that the reals are supported with IEEE
arithmetic.

24. [385:12+] Add new paragraph:
In this standard, the term <<normal>> is used for other values.

Also, add an index entry for "normal".

25. [383:7-9] Subject to approval by WG5, delete sentence "If any
exception is signaling when the program terminates, the processor shall
issue a warning on the unit identified by "*" in a WRITE statement,
indicating which conditions are signaling."


26. Do not add an extra procedure for discovering the exception states
have been stored for all the procedures in the current call chain.
This will be difficult to write in the language of the standard and is
a 'creeping goodie' which we feel should be resisted.


27. [388:10] Change "overflow" to "IEEE_OVERFLOW".
[393:1] Change "overflow" to "IEEE_OVERFLOW".
[395:6] Change "underflow" to "IEEE_UNDERFLOW".
[400:31] Change "overflow" to "IEEE_OVERFLOW".
[402:15] Change "overflow" to "IEEE_OVERFLOW".
[402:16] Change "underflow" to "IEEE_UNDERFLOW".


28. We need to add the operators == and /= for the types of IEEE_ARITHMETIC
in order to make use of values of these types.

[381:43-44] Delete sentence "No operation is defined for them and only
intrinsic assignment is available for them."
[382:18+] add
o  The elemental operator == for two values of one of these types to
   return .TRUE. if the values are the same and .FALSE. otherwise.
o  The elemental operator /= for two values of one of these types to return
   .TRUE. if the values differ and .FALSE. otherwise.

29. We need to say that any intrinsic procedure or procedure in an
intrinsic module behaves in a way that is consistent with the IEEE standard
when presented with a NaN or an infinity as an argument. It is undesirable
to spell out the details in one or two cases.

[385:29+] Add paragraphs:

The inquiry function IEEE_SUPPORT_NAN is provided to inquire whether the
processor supports IEEE NaNs. Where these are supported, their behaviour
for unary and binary operations, including those defined by intrinsic
functions and by functions in intrinsic modules, is as specified in the
IEEE standard.

The inquiry function IEEE_SUPPORT_INF is provided to inquire whether the
processor supports IEEE infinities. Where these are supported, their
behaviour for unary and binary operations, including those defined by
intrinsic functions and by functions in intrinsic modules, is as
specified in the IEEE standard.

[390:34-36] Delete "Case (iii) ... quiet Nan."

[391:10-11] Delete "If either ... input Nans."


30. We need to ensure that code such as
        if(ieee_support_datatype(x)) then
           c = ieee_class(x)
        else
           :
does not fail at compile time on a machine that does not support ieee data.
To fix this:

[387:16-17] Delete "and such that IEEE_SUPPORT_DATATYPE(X) has the value true."
[387:19] Change "The" to "Case (i) If IEEE_SUPPORT_DATATYPE(X) has the value
true, the".
[387:28+] Add "Case(ii) Otherwise, the result is processor dependent".

Apply similar edits to IEEE_COPY_SIGN, IEEE_IS_FINITE, IEEE_IS_NAN,
IEEE_IS_NEGATIVE, IEEE_IS_NORMAL, IEEE_REM, IEEE_RINT, IEEE_UNORDERED,
IEEE_VALUE.

Such edits are needed for other procedures, but more time is needed to
prepare them.