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


Scott Robert Ladd <scott.ladd@coyotegulch.com> writes:

> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> No, this is not portable,
>> 
>> Sure they are, since they are required since C89.
>> 
>> You can use <float.h> to find that out.  That's what portability is
>> about.
>
> "Portability" means different things to different people. There's a
> difference between source code portability and "result" portability.

But making round to double the default makes it only worse in this case,
since there is no portable way to change the rounding precision.

Andreas.

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