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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:04:19 +0000
From: Pascal Cuoq <cuoq@...st-in-soft.com>
To: "musl@...ts.openwall.com" <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Posits support under Musl libc?
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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