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Re: Comparing doubles

From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, lars at nocrew dot org
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 10:42:11 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Comparing doubles

> In particular, would it be acceptable for a GCC back end to compare
> two doubles by subtracting them, converting the result to float, and
> then compare the result against zero?

no, this is not even approximately correct

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