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Re: numerical instability and estimate-probability
- From: Stephen L Moshier <moshier at mediaone dot net>
- To: Brad Lucier <lucier at math dot purdue dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:47:40 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: numerical instability and estimate-probability
- Reply-to: moshier at moshier dot ne dot mediaone dot net
> Now that this problem affects the very operation of GCC
> itself, perhaps someone will want to fix it.
Use of the host computer's floating point should be STRONGLY discouraged.
GCC runs on other non-IEEE computers besides x86, such as VAX, Alpha,
Convex, IBM370, Cray... Indeed, at one time it was possible to run
most compilations on a machine that had no floating point arithmetic
at all.