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From: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@mpi-sws.org>
To: Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: [Caml-list] NaN reresentations
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:56:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1D9E71FC-1C39-4655-9258-1F2CB85BAF3D@mpi-sws.org> (raw)

Does the Ocaml implementation make guarantees about the stable representation of floats? In particular, if I use Int64.float_of_bits to create a particular NaN representation, am I guaranteed that its bit pattern is maintained no matter where the value is stored or passed?

We are currently in the process of implementing a reference interpreter for a little low-level language, and that tries to be as accurate as possible about float representations.

Thanks,
/Andreas


             reply	other threads:[~2015-09-02 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-02 17:56 Andreas Rossberg [this message]
2015-09-02 18:35 ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-09-02 19:14 ` Xavier Leroy
2015-09-02 20:56   ` Andreas Rossberg

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