Quote: programming languages do not fully support IEEE floating-point arithmetic; e.g., rounding direction and floating-point exceptions

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The current standards of the programming languages Fortran … the need for predictable floating-point arithmetic. These standards, … exceptions at runtime. … Results of operations and the occurrence of floating-point … [with compilers] are not always reported correctly, although the underlying hardware is …   Google-1   Google-2

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