[Bug target/12331] Incorrect floating-point result due to loss of significance

[wilson at specifixinc dot com]

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------- Additional Comments From wilson at specifixinc dot com  2003-09-19 05:30 -------
Subject: Re:  Incorrect floating-point result due to loss
 of significance

adam at irvine dot com wrote:
> I do not understand why this bug, and similar bugs, are simply dismissed ...

Yes it is a bug, but it is a complicated one.  FP support is a 
historical weakness of gcc.  There have never been many of us that cared 
enough about FP support to work on it.  Thus gcc has poor FP 
performance, and some FP bugs like this one.  In the 10+ years that this 
problem has been known about, no one has ever volunteered to try fix it, 
or to pay someone else to fix it.  The bug will remain until that 
situation changes.