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Re: floating point war casualty list
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: steve at moshier dot net, toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl
- Cc: dewar at gnat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, law at redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 07:16:43 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: floating point war casualty list
> Well, that means that we now have another part of GCC that's not really
> free software (the other one is reload{1}.c), because it can't be
> modified.
I find this an odd summary. Just because one person's attempt to
modify one piece of software without adequate knowledge was faulty
is hardly reason to make a blanket statement like this.
Floating-point stuff is VERY tricky, very few people have sufficient
knowledge of cross-platform considerations here to make modifications
in this area safely.
There is no magic in free software that suddenly ensures that anyone
can change anything successfully :-)