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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