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

[Joe Darcy]

Hello,

While informative, I think some kind of official link to the IEEE 754 
document is more appropriate in this context.

-Joe

On 5/3/2022 2:59 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>> https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=8766227
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>> -------------
>>
>> 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>
>
> ---rony
>
>