[GHC] #3898: Many floating point documentation/behaviour mismatches.

[GHC]

#3898: Many floating point documentation/behaviour mismatches.
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    Reporter:  draconx           |        Owner:  daniel.is.fischer
        Type:  bug               |       Status:  new              
    Priority:  high              |    Milestone:  7.2.1            
   Component:  libraries/base    |      Version:  6.12.1           
    Keywords:                    |     Testcase:                   
   Blockedby:                    |   Difficulty:                   
          Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Blocking:                   
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |      Failure:  None/Unknown     
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Changes (by daniel.is.fischer):

  * owner:  igloo => daniel.is.fischer


Comment:

 I'm taking over since it's now my department. We have the `scaleFloat`
 fix, I'm going to change the docs for `exponent` and
 `encodeFloat/decodeFloat`, then the priority can be lowered. Before
 changing the behaviour of `decodeFloat`, I'll ask on libraries what
 behaviour is preferred with respect to `NaN`, `Infinity` and `-0.0`.

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