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Re: Floating point trouble with x86's extended precision
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Bradley Lucier <lucier at math dot purdue dot edu>
- Cc: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>, wilson at tuliptree dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 22 Aug 2003 06:33:13 +0200
- Subject: Re: Floating point trouble with x86's extended precision
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <56CECD9E-D42C-11D7-87F3-003065B239F6@math.purdue.edu>
Bradley Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> writes:
| On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 03:44 PM, Volker Reichelt wrote:
|
| >> The problem isn't that the value is rounded. The problem is that the
| >> value is rounded at unpredictable locations,
| >
| > Agreed. But that's not a bug IMHO.
I disagree.
[...]
| I, and other people, think that the inability to get predictable
| behavior from GCC (even from an option that you might not like to use
| because of speed or other issues) is a bug.
Same here.
It is OK to say, "Oh yes, this is a functionality we don't know how to
get right; we don't foresee any immediate work to fix it."
But is not OK to say it is not a bug. It does not make GCC team look
serious. Professionaly speaking.
-- Gaby