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Re: real.c implementation
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:16:15 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: real.c implementation
- References: <20021022101116.4C569F2D65@nile.gnat.com>
Robert Dewar writes:
>
> The reason for my surprise is that if the Mercury spec requires this to be
> "done right", I would have thought that you would not simply trust the
> backend of GCC to do things right (in our experience, at least in GCC 2,
> it for sure does not do the "right thing" for denormals in all situations).
The reason for our surprise is that you chose not to fix gcc but to
duplicate functionality instead.
Andrew.