Porposal: Floating-Point Options

[Marcin Dalecki]

On 2005-06-14, at 19:29, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> The original bug was about testing the equality of doubles. I think  
> that's
> just plain mathematically bad. Error bands should be used to test for
> "equality", using a band that is in accordance with the minimum  
> precision
> specified in the compiler documentation.
>

To be a bit more precise: don't use the precision specified in the  
compiler
but the precision you expect for the overall algorithms numerical  
stability.