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Re: gfortran test runs

From: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>
To: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>,Andrew MacLeod <amacleod at redhat dot com>,Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>,gcc mailing list <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:02:28 +0200
Subject: Re: gfortran test runs
References: <1093439260.5415.1257.camel@p4> <20040825134546.GA26416@nevyn.them.org> <1093442437.13982.1335.camel@p4> <1093448278.22129.21.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> <412D04A5.1080407@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>

On Aug 25, 2004, at 23:29, Toon Moene wrote:

5. [...] If a floating expression is evaluated in the translation
   environment, the arithmetic precision and range shall be at
   least as great as if the expression were being evaluated in the
   execution environment.


If you just want to evaluate simple floating-point operations,
you'd only need regular 64-bit integer math,
or 128-bit for 128-bit floats. This really isn't that hard.
Even evaluating floating-point expressions with infinite
precision is feasible, see GNAT.

-Geert

References:
- gfortran test runs
  - From: Andrew MacLeod
- Re: gfortran test runs
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: gfortran test runs
  - From: Andrew MacLeod
- Re: gfortran test runs
  - From: Richard Earnshaw
- Re: gfortran test runs
  - From: Toon Moene

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