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Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]
On 2005-05-31 09:56:31 -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 31, 2005, at 06:43 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >No, this is not portable, since if extended precision is necessary to
> >get correct results for some application, the same application run on
> >PowerPC, where there is no extended precision
>
> ? News to me! Ok, who removed it? Speak up now, or we're going to
> send the firing squad.
Well, there is no extended precision with GCC under Linux/PPC.
And according to
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/PPCNumerics/PPCNumerics-14.html
(found with Google), the PowerPC doesn't have hardware support
for extended precision.
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