Re: Should rand() return a RAND_MAX value for 32 bit target?

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc@vinc17.org>]

On 2018-09-22 10:17:04 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Thus if one does
> 
>   float a;
>   int b;
> 
>   /* ... */
>   a + b;
> 
> with FLT_EVAL_METHOD = 2, the evaluation type of a is long double, b
> is converted to the semantic type float, but its evaluation type is
> long double, so that its value should not change if representable as
> a long double. That's what FLT_EVAL_METHOD means. The *only* cases
> for which the precision and range need to be reduced to those of the
> semantic type if for assignment and cast, but here one just has an
> implicit conversion.

Bug reported here: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87390
(note that the tests do not involve constants, these are just about
implicit type conversions).

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