The perennial i386 floating-point rounding issue...

[Stephen L Moshier]

> > Some years ago one of the Next people implemented a way for gcc to
> > keep track of the fpu precision setting.  I don't know how well it worked
> > then or how practical it would be now, but I think many users would
> > be happier if double meant double and long double meant long double.
>
> You mean the -ffppc flag?  It's still around in Apple's 2.95 hacks,
> but so far nobody has wanted to try rewriting it for 3.1 (nor has
> anybody asked for it - let sleeping dogs lie :-) ).
>
> Stan

Is that what it was called?  Well, now we know what to ask for!
I want one of those ffppc flags right away!