floating point war casualty list

[Robert Dewar]

<<I read this as: You'd better not touch this.  He doesn't talk about
capabilities.  He is the original author of this code.  He should have
been able originally to add comments about what considerations went into
its design, which would enable potential modifiers of this code to
assess the difficulties and refrain from updating if they felt not
capable.
>>

Sure, that's reasonable enough

<Ture, but there's also no magic in the mathematics of precise floating
point arithmetic that makes it unexplainable :-)
>

Well historically floating-point is an area where people think they know
more than they do, and compiler writers are always making mistakes in
this area :-(