From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
To: rth@redhat.com, steve@moshier.net
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: real.c fails floating point tests
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021018143351.CE144F28CC@nile.gnat.com> (raw)
> Previously the REAL_VALUE_TYPE could not contain auxiliary
> information, because often it was actually just emulating a host computer
> double. If you have removed that restriction then you can put various
> other items into the data structure and then it looks like it would be
> simple to make the 160-bit precision follow some arithmetic rules that
> are easier to analyze and test.
I definitely agree with this analysis. High precision is never an adequate
susbtitute for well defined axiomatic properties when it comes to fpt.
next reply other threads:[~2002-10-18 14:33 UTC|newest]
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2002-10-18 9:11 Robert Dewar [this message]
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2002-10-17 8:55 Joern Rennecke
2002-10-17 13:44 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-17 6:00 Robert Dewar
2002-10-17 5:22 Robert Dewar
2002-10-16 9:58 Robert Dewar
2002-10-16 10:12 ` David Edelsohn
2002-10-16 10:16 ` Andrew Haley
2002-10-16 11:30 ` Stephen L Moshier
2002-10-16 10:23 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2002-10-16 11:54 ` Mark Mitchell
2002-10-16 15:54 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-16 16:31 ` Mark Mitchell
2002-10-16 9:28 Robert Dewar
2002-10-16 8:19 Stephen L Moshier
2002-10-16 9:47 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2002-10-16 14:54 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-16 15:29 ` Stephen L Moshier
2002-10-16 15:36 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-16 17:20 ` Stephen L Moshier
2002-10-16 21:16 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-18 7:32 ` Stephen L Moshier
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