Optimisation prevents overflow?

[Davide Mancusi]

Janne Blomqvist wrote:
>> As you said, in principle all the code is doing it.
> 
> I said nothing of the sort.

I meant that the presence of extra precision affects all floating-point
instructions. I was referring to (in your other mail):
> Depending on your definition of inconsistent, almost anything that has
> to do with floating point might lead to inconsistent behaviour between
> different hardware, compilers, optimization levels and whatnot. ;-)

Thanks for the tip. Now I have something to do for the weekend: trapping
overflows... ;-)

Davide