[J3] Proposals for new intrinsic procedures

Steven G. Kargl kargl at uw.edu
Thu Jan 5 23:44:38 UTC 2023


Hi Brad,

I noticed that you omitted pow, powr, atanPi, and atan2Pi
from the list of IEEE functions.  These are listed in 
table 9.1 of IEEE Std 754-2008.  Was this intentional?

Also, you might find ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 14 N1950 handy
as it describes many of the functions you listed (and more)

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1950.pdf

-- 
steve
  

On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 11:35:29PM +0000, Brad Richardson via J3 wrote:
> Thanks all for the suggestions, direction and background. I'll do scan
> (or whatever we end up calling it) as one paper, and the other IEEE
> procedures as one paper. If anybody has suggestions for the spelling of
> INCLUSIVE_SCAN and EXCLUSIVE_SCAN let me know. I'll definitely have it
> as a straw vote.
> 
> Regards,
> Brad
> 
> On Thu, 2023-01-05 at 19:35 +0000, Brad Richardson via J3 wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Would proposals for new intrinsic functions be acceptable to submit
> > for
> > the upcoming meeting? Specifically I've been asked to write up the
> > papers for:
> >
> > * prefix sum (commonly known as scan, but of course that name's
> > already
> > taken), both inclusive and exclusive
> > * All functions recommended by IEEE-754, most of which Fortran
> > already
> > has, but the whole list is reproduced below
> >
> > exp
> > expm1
> > exp2
> > exp2m1
> > exp10
> > exp10m1
> > log
> > log2
> > log10
> > logp1
> > log2p1
> > log10p1
> > hypot
> > rSqrt
> > compound
> > rootn
> > pown
> > sin
> > cos
> > tan
> > sinPi
> > cosPi
> > tanPi
> > asin
> > acos
> > atan
> > atan2
> > sinh
> > cosh
> > tanh
> > acosh
> > atanh
> >
> > Some points of order questions also. Which subgroup is in charge of
> > the
> > intrinsic procedures so that I can coordinate with them? Would it be
> > best to write a separate paper for each new procedure, put them all
> > in
> > a single paper, or some scheme for grouping certain subsets? And
> > whilst
> > we don't have final version of F2023 to draft the edits against,
> > would
> > it be worthwhile to go ahead and detail out what they will look like?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any feedback.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Brad
> >
> 
> 

-- 
Steve
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