Abstract
During the past decade the IEEE 754 standard for binary floating-point arithmetic has been very successful. Many of today's hardware platforms conform to this standard and compilers should make floating-point functionality available to programmers through high-level programming languages. They should also implement certain features of the IEEE 754 standard in software, such as the input and output conversions to and from the internal binary representation of numbers. In this report, a number of Fortran 90 and C/C++ compilers for workstations as well as personal computers will be screened with respect to their IEEE conformance. It will be shown that most of these compilers do not conform to the IEEE standard and that shortcomings are essentially due to their respective programming language standards which lack attention for the need of predictable floating-point arithmetic.
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