This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
- To: burley at gnu dot org, jbuck at Synopsys dot COM
- Subject: Re: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
- From: N8TM at aol dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 03:04:09 EST
- Cc: ejr at CS dot Berkeley dot EDU, hjstein at bfr dot co dot il, egcs at cygnus dot com
In a message dated 12/14/98 11:01:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, burley@gnu.org
writes:
<< avoids transformations that can change numerical results,
>such as pre-evaluating expressions with 64-bit that would otherwise
>be evaluated using 80-bit precision at runtime >>
A good point. Among other things, this will require a good strtold (?)
conversion from decimal to binary, which I don't think is available. At least
this needs some planning.