Stalled Patches

[Toon Moene]

Paul Brook wrote:

> On Friday 02 April 2004 12:51, Joost VandeVondele wrote:
> 
>>It has nothing to do with the accuracy of the math libraries, the question
>>is if the constant needs to be converted to real*4 before
>>assignment in
>>
>>real*8 x=1.7
>>
>>as done in most compilers

[ and which is according to the Standard ]

>>, or if it is OK to assign the real*8 approximation.

> Ah, I see. I think the GMP->tree conversion is the wrong place to be doing 
> this, so the patch is still ok.

If you'd ask my advice, I'd make it a compile-time option.

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