Results for egcs-2.91.52 19980727 (gcc2 ss-980609 experiment

Carlo Wood carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl
Wed Aug 5 22:54:00 GMT 1998


| 	Your change does not solve the failure.  Even if it did, it
| changes the program and is testing something different.  This is not a bug
| in the compiler nor in the program, so trying to workaround it is a waste
| of time, IMO.  This shouldn't be considered a failure.
| 
| David

It doesn't?  Weird...
I don't think it would be a waste of time though, either it IS a bug
that this program fails or the program should be adjusted so it
tests the correct thing.  Ruling out the PowerPC architecture seems
unlogical to me: A user could expect (rely on ;) the accuracy one
would expect with sizeof(float) == 4.  Its a bit "fuzzy" to use
double internally on one platform and not on others, without
a clear way to detect this other then by knowing on what platform
you're running.

-- 
 Carlo Wood  <carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl>



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