Strange bug/problem with floating point assignments

Christian Ehrhardt ehrhardt@mathematik.uni-ulm.de
Tue May 6 13:29:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:43:24PM +0200, Per Lundberg wrote:
> There seems to be a very serious error pertaining floating point
> assignments.  The attached source code file demonstrates it.  This is a

Nope. The floating point constants you specify are not representable
exactly in the IEEE floating point format. Hence the rounding differences.
See the section: ``Problems with floating point computations'' on
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html.

   regards  Christian


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