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Re: Question about PI

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
Cc: Christophe Jaillet <christophe dot jaillet at wanadoo dot fr>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:19:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Question about PI
References: <dt8162$m13$1@sea.gmane.org> <a0fd8703fa60331bbc236e4f535698ce@physics.uc.edu>

Andrew Pinski wrote:

The PI which is in config/i386.c is what fldpi will produce and
not really PI.


Probably might be worth an extra comment, since I can see people
being confused by this. The comments do say fldpi, but I am not
sure everyone realizes clearly that fldpi does not (and cannot)
yield the exact value of pi.

References:
- Question about PI
  - From: Christophe Jaillet
- Re: Question about PI
  - From: Andrew Pinski

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