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Re: Java floating-point mess
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com, zack at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: dewar at gnat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:20:04 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Java floating-point mess
<<The only issue here is that we won't be able to cross-compile Java on
a VAX or somesuch, isn't it? Or am I missing something here?
>>
That sounds right provided that the front end is not trying to use host
floating-point arithmetic to precompute expressions (IEEE is not nearly
enough of an absolute standard for this to give the right results in
all cases).