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Re: arithmetic problem
- To: N8TM at aol dot com
- Subject: Re: arithmetic problem
- From: Kip Macy <kip at lyris dot com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:08:06 -0800 (PST)
- cc: c5016839 at ls3510 dot wdf dot sap-ag dot de, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
Hard to believe though it may be different behaviour on linux has been
reported previously and was actually justified. see archives.
-Kip
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 N8TM@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/30/99 7:55:05 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> c5016839@ls3510.wdf.sap-ag.de writes:
>
> > it would really be nice if Linux would behave like
> > the other platforms (tested AIX, Solaris, HPUX) by assigning the same
> > value.
> I suppose that you are using some version of gcc on linux (and also on the
> Unix versions?), but do you mean that the same version of gcc gives different
> results according to whether you are running linux or a proprietary OS on the
> same machine? That is difficult to believe. Otherwise, you can hardly blame
> linux for something which most likely depends on the characteristics of the
> unspecified hardware you are running on. Even if you are running linux on a
> i686 processor, you should be able to get it to behave quite similar to the
> others if you choose the rounding precision appropriately, if that is your
> goal.
>
> Tim
> tprince@computer.org
>
>