From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15378 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2002 00:33:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 15371 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2002 00:33:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx2.redhat.com) (12.150.115.133) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Oct 2002 00:33:01 -0000 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g940Wms21456; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:32:48 -0400 Received: from potter.sfbay.redhat.com (potter.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.15]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g940X0l21718; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:33:00 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (frothingslosh.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.24.27]) by potter.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g940Wxw15157; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:32:59 -0700 Received: (from rth@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g940Wti09771; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:32:55 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: rth set sender to rth@redhat.com using -f Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 17:50:00 -0000 From: Richard Henderson To: Stephen L Moshier Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: floating point decimal to binary conversion errors Message-ID: <20021004003254.GD9647@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Henderson , Stephen L Moshier , gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00201.txt.bz2 On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:49:45PM -0400, Stephen L Moshier wrote: > The method that gcc uses to convert decimal strings to floating point > binary numbers has been changed. A cursory test shows differences > that did not occur before. gcc previously had high enough accuracy > to get powers of ten correct. Confirmed. I'll look into it. r~