From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
To: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, lucier@math.purdue.edu, rth@redhat.com
Subject: Re: real.c implementation
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 03:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021022034256.4EE31F2D5D@nile.gnat.com> (raw)
> Deterministic results are a requirement for the Mercury compiler to
> conform to the Mercury language specification. I think that requires
> exact conversion.
The same is true of course for Ada, but what we do in Ada is have the
front end take care of everything, we do not trust the back end of GCC
or the assembler to do conversions correctly.
I am surprised that the Mercury compiler does not take the same approach.
next reply other threads:[~2002-10-22 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-22 3:14 Robert Dewar [this message]
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
[not found] <200210281429.g9SETTeS020750@mururoa.inria.fr>
2002-10-28 11:38 ` Brigitte Verdonk
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2002-10-28 8:34 Stephen L Moshier
2002-10-28 4:43 Stephen L Moshier
2002-10-26 8:43 Robert Dewar
2002-10-26 8:42 Stephen L Moshier
2002-10-26 9:05 ` Brad Lucier
2002-10-26 4:10 Stephen L Moshier
2002-10-23 0:33 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 23:58 Robert Dewar
2002-10-23 0:03 ` Eric Christopher
2002-10-22 13:22 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 12:15 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 12:32 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-22 11:04 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 9:45 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 14:35 ` Neil Booth
2002-10-22 9:43 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 11:56 ` Richard Henderson
2002-10-22 9:05 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 9:19 ` 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 7:23 Robert Dewar
2002-10-22 7:41 ` Andrew Haley
2002-10-19 2:16 Roger Sayle
2002-10-18 17:02 Brad Lucier
2002-10-18 20:28 ` Richard Henderson
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
2002-10-21 20:41 ` Richard Henderson
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