gfortran test runs

Geert Bosch bosch@gnat.com
Thu Aug 26 13:17:00 GMT 2004


On Aug 25, 2004, at 23:29, Toon Moene wrote:
> 5. [...] If a floating expression is evaluated in the translation
>    environment, the arithmetic precision and range shall be at
>    least as great as if the expression were being evaluated in the
>    execution environment.

If you just want to evaluate simple floating-point operations,
you'd only need regular 64-bit integer math,
or 128-bit for 128-bit floats. This really isn't that hard.
Even evaluating floating-point expressions with infinite
precision is feasible, see GNAT.

   -Geert



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