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Re: The perennial i386 floating-point rounding issue...
- From: Stephen L Moshier <steve at moshier dot net>
- To: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Cc: mike stump <mrs at windriver dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:51:24 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: The perennial i386 floating-point rounding issue...
> > Some years ago one of the Next people implemented a way for gcc to
> > keep track of the fpu precision setting. I don't know how well it worked
> > then or how practical it would be now, but I think many users would
> > be happier if double meant double and long double meant long double.
>
> You mean the -ffppc flag? It's still around in Apple's 2.95 hacks,
> but so far nobody has wanted to try rewriting it for 3.1 (nor has
> anybody asked for it - let sleeping dogs lie :-) ).
>
> Stan
Is that what it was called? Well, now we know what to ask for!
I want one of those ffppc flags right away!