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    • Robert Griesemer's avatar
      spec: require 16 bit minimum exponent in constants rather than 32 · 8fbfdad2
      Robert Griesemer authored
      A 16bit binary exponent permits a constant range covering roughly the range
      from 7e-9865 to 7e9863 which is more than enough for any practical and
      hypothetical constant arithmetic.
      
      Furthermore, until recently cmd/compile could not handle very large exponents
      correctly anyway; i.e., the chance that any real programs (but for tests that
      explore corner cases) are affected are close to zero.
      
      Finally, restricting the minimum supported range significantly reduces the
      implementation complexity in an area that hardly matters in reality for new
      or alternative spec-compliant implementations that don't or cannot rely on
      pre-existing arbitratry precision arithmetic packages that support a 32bit
      exponent range.
      
      This is technically a language change but for the reasons mentioned above
      this is unlikely to affect any real programs, and certainly not programs
      compiled with the gc or gccgo compilers as they currently support up to
      32bit exponents.
      
      Fixes #13572.
      
      Change-Id: I970f919c57fc82c0175844364cf48ea335f17d39
      Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/17711Reviewed-by: 's avatarRob Pike <r@golang.org>
      Reviewed-by: 's avatarRuss Cox <rsc@golang.org>
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