Fourth Draft "Unsafe fp optimizations" project description.

dewar@gnat.com dewar@gnat.com
Sun Aug 12 21:52:00 GMT 2001


<<Hmm. As far as I know, the library routines at least in glibc do not add
any accuracy.
>>

Right, I think on the x86, you have to settle in Ada for using specialized
routines. My own feeling is that for normal use, it is fine to use the
instructions. I agree that in normal mode you need errno handling, I must
say that the extended range reduction is completely useless in practice,
but I suppose it is required :-(



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