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Re: Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters
Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:
| Laurent GUERBY wrote:
| > On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 16:45 -0400, Robert Dewar wrote:
| >
| >>Mattias Karlsson wrote:
| >>
| >>
| >>>Since the "gcc-is-buggy" solution of changing x87 rounding modes will:
| >>>1) Be a lot of work.
| >>>2) Cause a lot of regressions.
| >>
| >>To this you can add
| >>
| >> 3) generate less efficient code
| > Changing the default rounding of the processor will make code less
| > efficient?
| > Laurent
|
| Yes, if you have to change it backwards and forwards for float and
| double
I suspect the real question is which kind of codes and how they are
representative.
-- Gaby