GCC 2.95 and floating point precision

[Stephen L Moshier]

GCC-2.95 is more sensitive than any previous GCC version has been
to the floating point pointer aliasing feature-bug of ANSI C.

The program you referenced contains code that is not valid ANSI C,
such as the following:

  long double ChopVar;
  *Lo = *((unsigned long int *) &ChopVar);
  *Hi = (*(((unsigned long int *) &ChopVar) + 1)) & ~2147483648U;

You may not do this any more.  It is verboten.  You are supposed to use
a union containing the float and the int together.