Problem on i386 with -fpic -fomit-frame-pointer

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In a message dated 10/15/98 2:43:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
bcurrie@tssc.co.nz writes:

> What about PI and e (log2(e)?) and any other constants that are
>  available in hardware?  Yes, I know there's the problem of recognising
>  them (ie they have to be specified `exactly' (for the representation)). 
>  I can't remember them all, but I know the Intel FPU has a few other
>  usefull constants.
When I first used gcc, on a Sun 3/60, I modified the constant recognition
function so that it used the internal constant if it was within 1 +-
DBL_EPSILON or FLT_EPSILON, as the case might be, of matching.  Pedantically
speaking, this isn't correct, but I found the results quite satisfactory, as
it was really better to have the occasional boost in precision.