[Haskell-cafe] [ANN] fp-ieee v0.1

[Carter Schonwald]

This is really cool!

Is the fall back strategy to do Kahn style compensated arithmetic.  Similar
to in Edward Kmett’s compensated library on hackage?

I like how you have both styles of NaN semantics for min and max, with the
default being NaN poisoning but also providing the NaN avoiding one some
software needs to do.

On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 7:06 AM ARATA Mizuki <minorinoki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to announce the first release of fp-ieee.
>
> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/fp-ieee
>
> This library aims to provide IEEE 754-2019 compliant operations, including
>
> * fusedMultiplyAdd
>
> * correctly-rounding versions of fromInteger (GHC's fromInteger for Float
> and Double do not round correctly; see
> https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/17231)
>
> * realFloatToFrac: an alternative of realToFrac with well-defined
> semantics.
>
> Other notes:
>
> * Most of the functions are generic, and any RealFloat instance can be
> used. However, manipulation of NaN's sign and payload requires an
> additional constraint (RealFloatNaN, provided by this library).
>
> * Access to floating-point environment is not provided. If you want to
> control rounding direction, look at my another library:
> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/rounded-hw
>
> * Decimal-specific operations (like quantize, quantum) are not provided,
> and the preferred exponent is not honored.
>
> * Use of FFI can be disabled via a package flag (maybe useful when using
> non-native targets).
>
>
> Mizuki
>
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