Possible Buglet in gfortran Release 143193 (and 4.3.1 and 4.3.2)

[Tom Browder]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Jerry DeLisle <jvdelisle@verizon.net> wrote:
> Tom Browder wrote:
...
>> Right now I'm testing some functions I had to write to replace the
>> pgf77 trig functions accepting arguments in degrees or returning
>> degrees instead of radians.
>>
>> I'm getting the same answers to 6 decimal places for real*4 and 15
>> decimal places for real*8.  Does that sound about right?
...
> Yes, that sounds about right. Short of a blunder bug, you can rely pretty
> well on gfortran precision.  Discrepancies are usually related to
> computational sensitivity to round-off.

Thanks, Jerry, this is a good place to close this thread.

-Tom