intel arithmetic

[Martin v. Loewis]

> it was run under redhat-6.2 on an intel pentium III dual processor
> machine.  (The same code with the same version of gcc on a sun ultrasparc
> produces the result "good".)  It would save me a lot of headache to
> be able to count on floating point values not changing between an
> assignment and a later use.

Thanks for your bug report. This is not a bug in the compiler, see

http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/fom.cgi?file=49

Regards,
Martin