RFR: JDK-8285977: Add links to IEEE 754 specification

Tue May 3 09:59:40 UTC 2022

On 03.05.2022 10:28, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2022 22:55:43 GMT, Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org> wrote:
>
>> Please review the addition of @-see links from classes that mention the IEEE 754 floating-point standard to an IEEE page about the standard. The URL in the initial version of the PR is the top search result on the IEEE home page for "754 standard".
>>
>> Another candidate page to use is
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>> https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=8766227
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>> which is (apparently) a stable citation page for the standard.
>>
>> These links may be upgraded to the the forthcoming @-spec facility in the future. ( JDK-6251738).
> What about the DOI URL? Probably even more stable.
> https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEESTD.2019.8766229
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> PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8511

Maybe informal links to the resources made available via the web by the IEEE 754 editor, Mike F. Cowlishaw, could be helpful:

- <http://speleotrove.com/decimal/>
- Previous standard: <https://www.iso.org/standard/57469.html> with <http://speleotrove.com/misc/IEEE754-errata.html>
- Current standard: <https://www.iso.org/standard/80985.html> with <http://speleotrove.com/misc/IEEE754-errata-2019.html>

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