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Re: FWD: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: FWD: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
- From: Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>
- Date: 20 Dec 1998 19:23:58 +0000
- References: <199812162050.PAA17917@wagner.Princeton.EDU>
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Hollebeek <tim@wagner.princeton.edu> writes:
Tim> 64 bit rounding is a wonderful solution .... assuming the only
Tim> floating point type you ever use is 'double'. As such, it makes
Tim> sense as a practical user level solution, but I'm afraid it's
Tim> almost useless as a general purpose solution.
So I'll ask again: what real problems that we've missed in g77 support
traffic does it not address? (I'm not arguing and I'd like to know
about them for support purposes.)