Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters

[Mattias Karlsson]

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Robert Dewar wrote:

> Mattias Karlsson wrote:
>
>> Don't know about you, but I consider any processor that is unable to store 
>> a register to memory and then read back the same value to be buggy.
>
> THe x86/x87 does not violate this requirement

In my Obi-Wan-Point-Of-View it does. :-)


This entire debate comes from one thing: currently floating point has 
always type long double untill stored to memory, regardless of 
user-specified type. At -O1 this becomes more or less non-deterministic.