Excess precision problem on IA-64

Eric Botcazou ebotcazou@adacore.com
Thu Oct 27 20:05:00 GMT 2005


> Fused multiply-add always uses "infinite precision" in the intermediate
> result. Only a single rounding is performed at the end.

Of course, but I was implicitly referring to the 82-bit thing.  But it seems I 
was wrong, as the testcase fails on PowerPC w/ -mfused-madd too.

-- 
Eric Botcazou



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