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Re: floating point decimal to binary conversion errors
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Stephen L Moshier <steve at moshier dot net>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:32:54 -0700
- Subject: Re: floating point decimal to binary conversion errors
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210031646480.22073-100000@moshier.net>
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:49:45PM -0400, Stephen L Moshier wrote:
> The method that gcc uses to convert decimal strings to floating point
> binary numbers has been changed. A cursory test shows differences
> that did not occur before. gcc previously had high enough accuracy
> to get powers of ten correct.
Confirmed. I'll look into it.
r~