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

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

>>>>> "Toon" == Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> writes:

 Toon> I tend to turn this remark around: What we need in the g77
 Toon> manual (despite the fact that it is not exclusively relevant to
 Toon> FORTRAN) is a section on the uses and pitfalls of floating
 Toon> point arithmetic.

We already have such a section, don't we? (not that I'd want to
discourage doc additions!).

 Toon> I'll set out to write this (this won't be easy, as I have to
 Toon> evade the obvious references for copyright reasons).

We already make what I thought were some obvious references, but no
matter.  What's the problem with such references?  (I don't think we
really need such stuff to be free per GNU docs, because it isn't
actually program doc.)

 Toon> In the mean time, it would be useful for the compiler to warn
 Toon> about testing floating point variables for (in)equality.

I think ftnchek (Toolpack?) will do that if it helps.