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Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]


On 2005-05-31 10:30:52 -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> If you follow Standard C, you are guaranteed source code portability, in
> the program compiles and produce the "same" results with any Standard C
> compiler.
> 
> When we start talking about floating-point code, however, we enter the
> realm of "result" portability, in that different platforms (or different
> compiler swicthes) return slightly different numbers from the same
> source code.

This is not much different from integer arithmetic. Standard types
such as int may have different sizes on different platforms.

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