can this happen?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep 11, 2000, janka <janka@statistik.wu-wien.ac.at> wrote:

> is the following scenario possible

Yes.  The additional compare may cause FP registers to be stored in
memory, losing the excess precision bits.

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