From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM>
To: tim@wagner.Princeton.EDU (Tim Hollebeek)
Cc: law@cygnus.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, moshier@mediaone.net,
tprince@cat.e-mail.com, bosch@gnat.com, burley@gnu.org,
egcs@cygnus.com, hjstein@bfr.co.il
Subject: Re: /internet
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812161640.IAA25538@atrus.synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199812161558.KAA15763@wagner.Princeton.EDU>
> I believe the example you were talking about yesterday violates IEEE,
> since the reordering you suggested can change the value of the result
> (by causing an intermediate (c*d) to overflow, when left to right
> evaluation would not cause an overflow):
Does IEEE require left-to-right evaluation of y = a * b * c * d;
when there are no parentheses present?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-16 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-15 15:06 /internet tprince
1998-12-15 19:12 ` /internet Stephen L Moshier
1998-12-15 19:21 ` /internet Joe Buck
1998-12-15 19:37 ` /internet Jeffrey A Law
1998-12-16 7:58 ` /internet Tim Hollebeek
1998-12-16 8:41 ` Joe Buck [this message]
1998-12-16 11:45 ` /internet Stephen L Moshier
1998-12-16 11:59 ` /internet Joe Buck
1998-12-16 13:19 ` /internet Chip Salzenberg
1998-12-16 16:20 ` /internet Jeffrey A Law
1998-12-16 17:42 ` /internet Joern Rennecke
1998-12-17 9:46 ` /internet Horst von Brand
1998-12-16 16:37 ` /internet Jeffrey A Law
1998-12-16 16:56 ` /internet Per Bothner
1998-12-17 20:20 ` /internet Jeffrey A Law
1998-12-16 17:52 ` /internet Joern Rennecke
1998-12-17 4:43 ` /internet Sylvain Pion
1998-12-17 10:26 ` /internet Craig Burley
1998-12-15 23:08 ` /internet Matthias Urlichs
1998-12-16 9:33 ` /internet Craig Burley
1998-12-16 5:44 ` /internet Stephen L Moshier
1998-12-16 9:37 ` /internet Craig Burley
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-12-16 12:34 /internet Geert Bosch
1998-12-16 13:02 ` /internet Harvey J. Stein
1998-12-16 16:25 ` /internet Jeffrey A Law
1998-12-04 17:41 /internet tprince
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