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From: Bob Plantz <plantz@cds1.net>
To: Jonathan <jsealy@cwgsy.net>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: surprising precision
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B8EDC8D.9030506@cds1.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D5846594-AE6E-4BCD-B81E-6D8DB68EB780@cwgsy.net>

By the way, it may interest you to know that half the floating point values (in IEEE 754 format) are in the range -2.0 to +2.0, not inclusive.

--Bob


On 3/3/2010 12:29 PM, Jonathan wrote:
> Please have a look at my query posted at the following 3 forums.
> It has not received any explanations yet.
> On the one hand it appears not to be a problem but on the other hand 
> could be a spectacular bug.
>
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=49627
>
> http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=17&id=4589
>
> http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11688
>
>
> Thank you.
> Jonathan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-03 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-03 20:29 Jonathan
2010-03-03 20:42 ` Andrew Haley
2010-03-03 20:52 ` me22
2010-03-03 21:58   ` Bob Plantz
2010-03-03 21:53 ` John S. Fine
2010-03-04 15:54   ` Steve Teale
2010-03-04 16:55     ` Andrew Haley
2010-03-04 17:28       ` Bob Plantz
2010-03-04 18:34     ` Dean Anderson
2010-03-05 15:59     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-03-05 16:58     ` John S. Fine
2010-03-05 19:42       ` Steve Teale
2010-03-03 22:03 ` Bob Plantz [this message]
2010-03-04 18:41   ` Toon Moene

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