<para>
The #GFloatIEEE754 and #GDoubleIEEE754 unions are used to access the
- sign, mantissa and exponent of IEEE floats and doubles. These
- unions are defined as appropriate for a given platform.
- IEEE floats and doubles are supported (used for
- storage) by at least Intel, PPC and Sparc, for reference: <ulink url="http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html">http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html</ulink>
-</para>
-
-<!-- ##### SECTION See_Also ##### -->
-<para>
-<ulink url="http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html">http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html</ulink>
+sign, mantissa and exponent of IEEE floats and doubles. These unions are
+defined as appropriate for a given platform. IEEE floats and doubles are
+supported (used for storage) by at least Intel, PPC and Sparc. See
+<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_float">IEEE 754-2008</ulink>
+for more information about IEEE number formats.
</para>
<!-- ##### SECTION Stability_Level ##### -->
-<!-- ##### SECTION Image ##### -->
-
-
<!-- ##### MACRO G_IEEE754_FLOAT_BIAS ##### -->
<para>
-See <ulink url="http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html">http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html</ulink>
+The bias by which exponents in single-precision floats are offset.
</para>
<!-- ##### MACRO G_IEEE754_DOUBLE_BIAS ##### -->
<para>
-See <ulink url="http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html">http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html</ulink>
+The bias by which exponents in double-precision floats are offset.
</para>
<!-- ##### UNION GFloatIEEE754 ##### -->
<para>
-The #GFloatIEEE754 and #GDoubleIEEE754 unions are used to access the
- sign, mantissa and exponent of IEEE floats and doubles. These
- unions are defined as appropriate for a given platform.
- IEEE floats and doubles are supported (used for
- storage) by at least Intel, PPC and Sparc, for reference:
-<ulink url="http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html">http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html</ulink>
+The #GFloatIEEE754 and #GDoubleIEEE754 unions are used to access the sign,
+mantissa and exponent of IEEE floats and doubles. These unions are defined
+as appropriate for a given platform. IEEE floats and doubles are supported
+(used for storage) by at least Intel, PPC and Sparc.
</para>
<!-- ##### UNION GDoubleIEEE754 ##### -->
<para>
-The #GFloatIEEE754 and #GDoubleIEEE754 unions are used to access the
- sign, mantissa and exponent of IEEE floats and doubles. These
- unions are defined as appropriate for a given platform.
- IEEE floats and doubles are supported (used for
- storage) by at least Intel, PPC and Sparc, for reference:
-<ulink url="http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html">http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html</ulink>
+The #GFloatIEEE754 and #GDoubleIEEE754 unions are used to access the sign,
+mantissa and exponent of IEEE floats and doubles. These unions are defined
+as appropriate for a given platform. IEEE floats and doubles are supported
+(used for storage) by at least Intel, PPC and Sparc.
</para>
<!-- ##### MACRO G_LOG_2_BASE_10 ##### -->
<para>
-Used for fooling around with float formats, see
-<ulink url="http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html">http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/numerical_comp_guide/ncg_math.doc.html</ulink>
+Multiplying the base 2 exponent by this number yields the base 10 exponent.
</para>
-
-