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Re: real.c implementation
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- Cc: aph at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:54:03 +0100
- Subject: Re: real.c implementation
- References: <20021022110137.BF977F29F2@nile.gnat.com>
Robert Dewar wrote:-
> > This is the part I don't understand. On a machine with IEEE format
> > arithmetic all langauges benefit if floating-point literals are
> > generated precisely, even if the language specification does not
> > require it.
>
> First, "generated precisely" is not well defined (and as I have pointed out
> in a previous message, for example, Ada and Java have different requirements
> for what precisely means).
I don't understand why your argument doesn't apply to having Ada a
completely separate codebase to GCC? After all, it has different
requirements to C, for example.
Neil.