Bug Report (Float --> Integer Inplace Conversion Precision Problem)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May  7, 2001, "David Welling" <dwelling@dsrnet.com> wrote:

> The inplace assignment should result in 7.  It does not because the value is
> copied straight from the FPU 80 bit register for the integer imm.

And why is this an error?  Have you ever read ``What Every Computer
Scientist Should Know about Floating-Point Arithmetic''
http://www.validgh.com/goldberg/paper.ps ?

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