On Tue, 08 Feb 2022 01:12:22 -0000 "Jim J. Jewett" <[email protected]> wrote: > - Should we require the presence of NaNs in order for CPython to build? > - Should we require IEEE 754 floating-point for CPython-the-implementation? > - Should we require IEEE 754 floating-point for Python-the-language? > > I don't have strong opinions on the first two, but for the language > definition, I think the most we should say is "if an implementation does not > support IEEE 754 floating-point, this must be mentioned in the documentation > as an implementation limit."
This is more about platform support than about implementation support. An implementation using a C "float" or "double" (or whatever the equivalent in another implementation language) will de facto support IEEE 754 on platforms that support it. Sure, a Python implementation may also choose to rewrite its own floating-point type from scratch, but that sounds unlikely. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/JO6BB3JZBPELKVT5HGNFK2RTQBZ3C2Y7/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
