From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: N8TM@aol.com
To: burley@gnu.org, jbuck@Synopsys.COM
Cc: ejr@CS.Berkeley.EDU, hjstein@bfr.co.il, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:05:00 -0000
Message-id: <d73e5a7b.367617f9@aol.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-12/msg00501.html

In a message dated 12/14/98 11:01:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, burley@gnu.org
writes:

<< avoids transformations that can change numerical results,
 >such as pre-evaluating expressions with 64-bit that would otherwise
 >be evaluated using 80-bit precision at runtime >>

A good point.  Among other things, this will require a good strtold (?)
conversion from decimal to binary, which I don't think is available.  At least
this needs some planning.