Tracking Issue for exposing float mask constants
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Description
Feature gate: #![feature(float_masks)]
This is a tracking issue for exposing constants for masking parts of floating point numbers.
Public API
pub const SIGN_MASK: u32 = 0x8000_0000;
pub const EXPONENT_MASK: u32 = 0x7f80_0000;
pub const MANTISSA_MASK: u32 = 0x007f_ffff;
Steps / History
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- ACP: rust-lang/libs-team#753
- Implementation: #154372
- Final comment period (FCP)^1
- Stabilization PR
Unresolved Questions
- None at this time/
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Read the feature-lifecycle stabilization guidance linked in footnote [^1] and review implementation PR #154372. Confirm the tracking checklist and unresolved-questions status; done is completing the final comment period and opening a stabilization PR.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100