Floating point trouble with x86's extended precision

[Robert Dewar]

> Whether that non-conformity is considered to be a bug in GCC or not is a different
> question.


I would say that non-conformance with a standard is always a bug.

Side comment: it is interesting to note that the Ada 95 committee rejected
this strenuous a requirement, because they felt the efficiency hit was too
great (and yes, they had the 387 in mind :-)