egcs-1.0.2 i686-pc-linux-gnu math optimization pb

[Ulrich Drepper]

wilson@cygnus.com (Jim Wilson) writes:

> Use of -ffloat-store solves some problems.  Writing code less sensitive to
> excess precision problems solves others.  Rewriting parts of the gcc x86 port
> might fix others.  Hopefully IA64 (Merced) won't have this problem.

If you only want 53bit precision set the FPU control word accordingly.
Richard Henderson some time ago posted here the source for a little .c
file you could use on Linux.

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