Floating point problems (accuracy).

[Toon Moene]

James E Wilson wrote:

> The only way to avoid double rounding is to have separate float, double,
> and long double arithmetic instructions, which unfortunately the x87 FP
> unit doesn't have.

And, to add some history - which Jim will know, doubtlessly - the m68k 
gcc port added the separate float and double arithmetic instructions as 
soon as they became available (in the Motorola 68040 processor).

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