Floating point trouble with x86's extended precision

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Bradley Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> writes:

| On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 03:44  PM, Volker Reichelt wrote:
| 
| >> The problem isn't that the value is rounded.  The problem is that the
| >> value is rounded at unpredictable locations,
| >
| > Agreed. But that's not a bug IMHO.

I disagree.

[...]

| I, and other people, think that the inability to get predictable
| behavior from GCC (even from an option that you might not like to use
| because of speed or other issues) is a bug.

Same here.

It is OK to say, "Oh yes, this is a functionality we don't know how to
get right; we don't foresee any immediate work to fix it."
But is not OK to say it is not a bug.  It does not make GCC team look
serious.  Professionaly speaking. 

-- Gaby