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Re: real.c implementation
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, lucier at math dot purdue dot edu,rth at redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:42:56 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: real.c implementation
> Deterministic results are a requirement for the Mercury compiler to
> conform to the Mercury language specification. I think that requires
> exact conversion.
The same is true of course for Ada, but what we do in Ada is have the
front end take care of everything, we do not trust the back end of GCC
or the assembler to do conversions correctly.
I am surprised that the Mercury compiler does not take the same approach.