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Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]

On 2005-05-30 16:12:07 -0400, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Haren Visavadia wrote:
> >--- Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> >I would expect the seem behaviour for both cases.
> 
> why? You have some inaccurate model of computation,
> which in the absence of switches, is not guaranteed.
> Floating-point semantics are indeed tricky.

According to 5.1.2.3#13, 6.3.1.5#2 and 6.3.1.8#2, the assert should
not fail (unless the division yields a NaN, but that would be a very
bad implementation anyway).

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