Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters

[Robert Dewar]

Mattias Karlsson wrote:
> 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. :-)

Well I think it is inapprorpiate to assign erroneous points of
view to Obi-Wan :-) Once again, on the x86/x87 the process IS "able
to store a register to memory and then read back the same value".
ANy claim to the contrary is ill-informed.

> 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.

Yes, right, but that is a different issue from being able to store
a register to memory and then read back the same value.