From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <199812161640.IAA25538@atrus.synopsys.com>
References: <199812161558.KAA15763@wagner.Princeton.EDU>
X-SW-Source: 1998-12/msg00581.html

> 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?