Re: FWD: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86

[Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>]

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com> writes:

 Marc> You mean:
 Marc>  * The hardware default is 0x037f. I choose 0x1372.
 Marc> (extended precision)

 Marc> vs.

 Marc> /* The fdlibm code requires strict IEEE double precision arithmetic,

 Marc> ?? The question is: what is "fdlibm"?

Yes, that looks familiar.

 Marc> Back to the problem: I see a couple of functions in
 Marc> bits/mathinline.h explicitly using long double, but I suspect
 Marc> this is to workaround the "spilling vs. chop" problem when
 Marc> these are spilled to memory.

If they're confined to the inlines, at least we could avoid them
affecting Fortran, which would be nice (for some of us) to know.