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Re: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
- To: emil at skatter dot usask dot ca, burley at gnu dot org, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
- From: N8TM at aol dot com
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:02:21 EST
In a message dated 12/19/98 6:46:15 AM Pacific Standard Time,
emil@skatter.usask.ca writes:
<< I very much
appreciate your proposal AND I endorse it completely. I am more than willing
to
pay a performance penalty in order to get numerically accurate results with
less
programming on my part. >>
I would like to join in thanking Craig for raising this issue and offering to
work on it. My primary objection to it was that the performance penalty
would be too large if the problem of mis-aligned spills were not solved. With
that qualification, I endorse it also.