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Re: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
- From: Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 1998 12:16:55 +0000
- References: <9812192313.AA19870@nile.gnat.com>
>>>>> "GB" == Geert Bosch <bosch@gnat.com> writes:
GB> If you want to know why, I advise you to read "What Every
GB> Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic",
GB> by David Goldberg,
FWIW, the g77 manual has a reference (in `Floating-point Errors') to a
supplemented version but I don't remember details. (Expert comments
on the collection of references there would be welcome.)