__builtin_cpow((0,0),(0,0))

[Marcin Dalecki]

On 2005-03-08, at 04:07, David Starner wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 03:24:35 +0100, Marcin Dalecki <martin@dalecki.de> 
> wrote:
>>
>> On 2005-03-08, at 02:55, Ronny Peine wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe i found something:
>>>
>>> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/ieee754.ps
>>> page 9 says:
>>
>> Lot's of opinions few hard arguments... I see there.
>> I wouldn't consider the above mentioned paper authoritative in any 
>> way.
>
> I guess just because someone wrote _the_ standard programs for testing
> the quality of floating point support in C and Fortran, and has got a
> ACM Turing Award for:
>
> "For his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis. One of the
> foremost experts on floating-point computations. Kahan has dedicated
> himself to 'making the world safe for numerical computations.'"
>
> doesn't mean you should actually pay attention to anything they have
> to say on the subject.

Are we a bit too obedient today? Look I was talking about the paper 
presented
above not about the author there of.