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Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]
On 2005-05-31 22:11:36 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc@vinc17.org> writes:
> > On 2005-05-31 21:16:19 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc@vinc17.org> writes:
> >> > The "long double" type is required, but it is not required to be
> >> > extended precision.
> >>
> >> But it can be.
> >
> > So what?
>
> You can take advantage of it if it exists (which you can find out about
> portably). But not if your compiler has crippled it.
You're wrong. If it is written in a portable way, the program will
still work if the processor rounds in double precision.
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