V3 PATCH: IRIX configuration
Mark Mitchell
mark@codesourcery.com
Mon Oct 30 00:15:00 GMT 2000
>>>>> "Gabriel" == Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com> writes:
Gabriel> Using a higher precision to compute a result, followed by
Gabriel> a truncation to the input precision is something
Gabriel> generally harmeless (it is just waste of ressource in
Gabriel> case computing with higher precision is not necessary nor
Gabriel> useful). That technique is usually used in routines
Gabriel> which are sentitive to noise.
But what about `__complex__ long double'? That one gets truncated
first, right?
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