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Re: Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters


On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Robert Dewar wrote:

Mattias Karlsson wrote:

Don't know about you, but I consider any processor that is unable to store a register to memory and then read back the same value to be buggy.

THe x86/x87 does not violate this requirement

In my Obi-Wan-Point-Of-View it does. :-)



This entire debate comes from one thing: currently floating point has always type long double untill stored to memory, regardless of user-specified type. At -O1 this becomes more or less non-deterministic.



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