Fourth Draft "Unsafe fp optimizations" project description.

dewar@gnat.com dewar@gnat.com
Wed Aug 15 15:22:00 GMT 2001


<<doing something like if (blah_justcomputed == thevalue) could result into a lot
of wasted time.
>>

Misusing any feature can result in a lot of wasted time.

If you are talking about a beginner who thinks that floating-point arithmetic
is real arithmetic, then you had better give warnings like

"warning: this operation is floating-point not real aritmetic"

for every fpt operation :-)



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