Re: real.c fails floating point tests

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

Stephen L Moshier <steve@moshier.net> writes:

[...]

| It is hard to see how users are going to develop a degree of assurance
| that the current GCC arithmetic is correct.  It is perplexing, why it
| was so important to remove a working arithmetic and substitute a
| non-working arithmetic.

That is too harsh and unfair to be a basis of a productive technical
discussion. 

There was no concerted efforts to replace the old code with a broken
one.  To support various languages (mostly C and C++) requirements on
numerical characteristics, it was at some point _necessary_ to rework
the old difficult-to-maintain-and-to-extend code.  Here, I would like
to thank RTH for having done that job.  

Sure in some sense, we weren't expecting the first iteration to be
100% perfect (I'm not diminishing RTH's skills) from start.  It is
great that people like you can make reports about malfunctioning codes
in the new rewrite, but I think there is no necessity (no place?) for
flames about it.

Thanks for the report.

Yours,

-- Gaby