Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-06-16 12:34:27 -0400, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> Well abandoning x87 was a joke, I was trying to get the point across
> that this is long standing "problem" with x87.  If you go and search
> you will see this comes up every year since at least 1998 before
> EGCS was officially GCC.

In the bug report, it didn't look at the joke. Anyway, one could also
say that floating-point arithmetic (not only binary one) is a long
standing problem. See for instance

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5856

and all the duplicates (and this one is really an invalid bug).

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