Re: Fourth Draft "Unsafe fp optimizations" project description.

[Ross Smith <ross dot s at ihug dot co dot nz>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> So bundle them all up under the heading
> 
>   3. Rearrangements whose effect is a loss of dynamic range in the
>      inputs.
> 
> and maybe with a few examples to show what the loss is, and what the
> range is ("a/b/c -> a/b*c potentially loses one bit of exponent range",
> "sin(x) limits the input range to values that have any accuracy left in
> the output" etc).

A little nitpick on a post I otherwise agree with: you're talking about
a loss of _domain_ values, not range. The domain of a function is the
set of legal argument values, the range is the set of possible return
values.

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