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Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]
On 2005-05-31 19:30:48 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> IEEE 754 is not mandated by the ISO C{90,99} standards and there are indeed
> platforms where float and double are not using IEEE 754 single resp. double
> precision formats.
But without IEEE-754 support, the ISO C99 standard is just a big joke
concerning floating point: almost nothing is guaranteed. And yes,
I know that there are platforms without IEEE-754 support, where a
multiplication by 1.0 may yield an overflow...
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