Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: where can I get standards documents
Message-ID: <1989Jan20.032954.24388@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3571@ingr.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 03:29:54 GMT

In article <3571@ingr.com> crossgl@ingr.com (Gordon Cross) writes:
>My ragged copy of a copy of a copy of (well you get the idea) the proposed
>ANSI standard is dated Feb 1986 and I am sure quite out of date.  Where can
>I buy the latest and greatest version??

The answer right now appears to be "you can't".  It is going through the
mill at ANSI; sometime in the next few months, with luck, it will be
available from them at a slightly-exorbitant price.  Right now, the Oct
draft (which is likely to be at least an extremely close approximation
to the final standard, the only change I know of having been a fix for
a dreadful typo) is the latest, but I know of nobody who will sell you
a copy.  Global Engineering Documents has the May draft, which was the
last sent out for public comment.  There have been *many* wording changes,
some of them important enough that I wouldn't recommend the May draft.

> Also I would like to get the IEEE
>floating point standard as well...

Talk to the IEEE Computer Society's Publications Office, (714)821-8380.
You're after IEEE standard 754-1985.
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