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Re: real.c implementation

Richard Henderson writes:
 > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:42:56PM -0400, Robert Dewar wrote:
 > > 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.
 > 
 > That seems like a complete waste of effort.  Why not do it 
 > correctly, once, in the right place?

I agree.  gcj, if course, requires exact IEEE float conversion and
relies on gcc to do it right,

Andrew.
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