From: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>,
Brad Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu>,
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: real.c implementation
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 01:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021022033432.GA7542@ceres.cs.mu.oz.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021021223718.GA12936@redhat.com>
On 21-Oct-2002, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:00:41PM -0500, Brad Lucier wrote:
>
> > Is exact conversion a goal for gcc?
>
> I'd say so.
Deterministic results are a requirement for the Mercury compiler to
conform to the Mercury language specification. I think that requires
exact conversion.
We got a bug report about this yesterday, so it is something that some of
our users do care about. (It's not a high priority, though. The benefit
to effort ratio is too low.)
--
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> | "I have always known that the pursuit
The University of Melbourne | of excellence is a lethal habit"
WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-22 3:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-17 14:16 Brad Lucier
2002-10-18 15:21 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-19 1:07 ` Brad Lucier
2002-10-21 7:37 ` Brad Lucier
2002-10-21 17:34 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-22 1:53 ` Fergus Henderson [this message]
2002-10-21 20:41 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-18 17:02 Brad Lucier
2002-10-18 20:28 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-19 2:16 Roger Sayle
2002-10-22 3:14 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 3:36 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-22 7:23 ` Andrew Haley
2002-10-22 11:00 ` Matt Thomas
2002-10-22 11:06 ` Andrew Haley
2002-10-22 11:11 ` Andrew Haley
2002-10-22 7:23 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 7:41 ` Andrew Haley
2002-10-22 8:49 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 8:50 ` Andrew Haley
2002-10-22 11:35 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-10-22 11:49 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-22 12:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-10-22 17:26 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-23 9:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-10-22 9:05 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 9:19 ` Andrew Haley
2002-10-22 9:43 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 11:56 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-22 9:45 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 14:35 ` Neil Booth
2002-10-22 11:04 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 12:15 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 12:32 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-22 13:22 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 23:58 Robert Dewar
2002-10-23 0:03 ` Eric Christopher
2002-10-23 0:33 Robert Dewar
2002-10-26 4:10 Stephen L Moshier
2002-10-26 8:42 Stephen L Moshier
2002-10-26 9:05 ` Brad Lucier
2002-10-26 8:43 Robert Dewar
2002-10-28 4:43 Stephen L Moshier
2002-10-28 8:34 Stephen L Moshier
[not found] <200210281429.g9SETTeS020750@mururoa.inria.fr>
2002-10-28 11:38 ` Brigitte Verdonk
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