Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-06-18 16:45:06 -0400, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Mattias Karlsson wrote:
> 
> >Since the "gcc-is-buggy" solution of changing x87 rounding modes will:
> >1) Be a lot of work.
> >2) Cause a lot of regressions.
> 
> To this you can add
> 
>   3) generate less efficient code

Not by changing the rounding precision. Anyway this is not the point
here (i.e. to consider where the bug comes from).

>   4) cause some algorithms that work now to fail

Only non-portable ones (those designed for extended precision only).
And portable algorithms that didn't work will work after the fix.

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