From: Pascal Cuoq <cuoq@trust-in-soft.com>
To: "musl@lists.openwall.com" <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [musl] Posits support under Musl libc?
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:04:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1593432262642.64835@trust-in-soft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a5f-5ef9c580-33-213e2940@106506192>
Hello,
> Can the "musl" libc project consider supporting the Posit number format in the math routines?
> More details;
> https://posithub.org/docs/Posits4.pdf
> https://posithub.org/docs/BeatingFloatingPoint.pdf
> And a sample implementation;
> https://gitlab.com/cerlane/SoftPosit
I am not a musl contributor and have no say in what it should contain or not, but why in hell a software implementation of a non-standard floating-point format that only its inventor seems to think has any concrete advantage over IEEE 754 belong in a libc the goals of which are below?
“lightweight, fast, simple, free, and strives to be correct in the sense of standards-conformance and safety.” (from https://musl.libc.org/ )
Posits are 1 out of 5 (I think they are free).
Pascal
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-29 10:42 mayuresh
2020-06-29 12:04 ` Pascal Cuoq [this message]
2020-06-29 12:56 mayuresh
2020-06-29 16:26 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-06-29 18:15 ` Markus Wichmann
2020-06-29 20:17 ` Rich Felker
2020-06-29 20:46 ` Pascal Cuoq
2020-06-30 2:57 ` Jeff Hammond
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