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Re: Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters
Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc@vinc17.org> writes:
| I don't understand your "IEEE = IEEE". To make things clearer:
| IEEE 754 explicitly allows an extended exponent range. The ISO C
| language doesn't. But this can be solved by stores, then there
| wouldn't by any problem as far as the standards are concerned.
Vincent --
I recommend you google GCC's archive for past discussions on this
issue. This is not the first time it is being discussed. If I
remember correctly, core back-end people looked at it and concluded
that fixing it requires a *major* rewrite of the back-end, if at all
possible [1]. I read your paragraph above as suggesting that it would
be simple thing to fix. It would be wonderful if that is true; would
you mind submitting a patch?
[1]: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-08/msg01234.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-08/msg01257.html
--- Gaby