From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA28306; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:15:15 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA27234 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:15:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id hAHLF3123636; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:15:03 +0100 (MET) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA27843; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:15:03 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:15:03 +0100 From: Xavier Leroy To: Brian Hurt Cc: Eric Dahlman , Ocaml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Rounding mode Message-ID: <20031117221503.A26749@pauillac.inria.fr> References: <3FAFF6AD.4090009@atcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from bhurt@spnz.org on Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:09:13PM -0600 X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 rounding:01 matthieu:01 semantics:01 computations:03 hmm:05 numerical:05 static:06 static:06 detect:06 eric:06 mode:07 type:07 problem:07 programming:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > Hmm. Actually, I wonder if type systems could be extended to detect > numerical instabilities? It's an extremely tough problem, but you might be interested in the following papers: "Static Analyses of the Precision of Floating-Point Operations", Eric Goubault, Static Analysis Symposium 2001. "Propagation of Roundoff Errors in Finite Precision Computations: a Semantics Approach", Matthieu Martel, European Symposium on Programming 2002. - Xavier Leroy ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners