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[Bug target/12129] Unexpected loss of floating point precision in assignment
- From: "preciseflight at yahoo dot com dot au" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 3 Sep 2003 05:30:33 -0000
- Subject: [Bug target/12129] Unexpected loss of floating point precision in assignment
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------- Additional Comments From preciseflight at yahoo dot com dot au 2003-09-03 05:30 -------
Subject: Re: Unexpected loss of floating point precision in assignment
Hello,
I'm confused:
> ------- Additional Comments From
pinskia@gcc.gnu.org:
> This is a non bug, read
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#nonbugs_general>
>
I understand that floating point arithmetic is
inaccurate but I don't understand how _assigning_ a
floating point value to a variable before use could
be any different from the implicit assignment of the
value to a temporary variable (done by the compiler).
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 323
But this has nothing to do with optimization levels.
I'm compiling with optimization off.
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