28 Feb
2017
28 Feb
'17
2:20 p.m.
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Iavor Diatchki wrote:
This may affect existing programs---although it doesn't seem very likely. Here is an example:
current behavior:
reads "0x10p10" = [(16.0,"p10")]
new behavior:
reads "0x10p10" = [(16384,"")]
"p" refers to a power of two and the exponent is written in decimal for a hexadecimal mantissa. Looks pretty confusing to me but it seems that the standard was made somewhen before this proposal.