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Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]
- From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc at vinc17 dot org>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:44:29 +0200
- Subject: Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]
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On 2005-06-06 19:23:06 -0400, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Laurent GUERBY wrote:
>
> >Such algorithm usually require a very detailed control of what's
> >going on at the machine level, given current high level programming
> >languages that means using assembler.
>
> No, that's not true, you might want to look at some of Jim Demmel's
> work in this area.
Do you have a reference (URL...)?
> >Or that many programs that currently work on many OS
> >will start to work the same under Linux instead of
> >giving strange (and may be wrong) results.
>
> But many programs that work fine on the x86 now will start breaking.
^^^
Linux/x86 only! And probably not many programs, and only programs
specific to x86. Their authors could still change the rounding
precision at the beginning of their programs if need be.
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