From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20137 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 2002 14:48:57 -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 19997 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2002 14:48:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gash2.peakpeak.com) (207.174.178.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Apr 2002 14:48:55 -0000 Received: from creche.cygnus.com (ta0196.peakpeak.com [204.144.244.196]) by gash2.peakpeak.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA31750; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 08:48:35 -0600 Received: (from tromey@localhost) by creche.cygnus.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA07078; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 08:50:42 -0600 To: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Cc: aph@cambridge.redhat.com, zack@codesourcery.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, java@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Java floating-point mess References: <20020405142004.2A101F28D5@nile.gnat.com> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com X-Attribution: Tom X-Zippy: ANN JILLIAN'S HAIR makes LONI ANDERSON'S HAIR look like RICARDO MONTALBAN'S HAIR! Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:58:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: dewar@gnat.com's message of "Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:20:04 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: <877knikzwd.fsf@creche.redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00276.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar writes: Andrew> The only issue here is that we won't be able to cross-compile Andrew> Java on a VAX or somesuch, isn't it? Or am I missing Andrew> something here? Robert> That sounds right provided that the front end is not trying to Robert> use host floating-point arithmetic to precompute expressions Robert> (IEEE is not nearly enough of an absolute standard for this to Robert> give the right results in all cases). The front end is required to do these computations in some contexts, namely compile-time constants. This is a concern to us, but it isn't immediately pressing. We already violate the spec with respect to compile-time constants in several ways. Tom