From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: FWD: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 11:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rzqbtkyobw1.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199812162050.PAA17917@wagner.Princeton.EDU>
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Hollebeek <tim@wagner.princeton.edu> writes:
Tim> 64 bit rounding is a wonderful solution .... assuming the only
Tim> floating point type you ever use is 'double'. As such, it makes
Tim> sense as a practical user level solution, but I'm afraid it's
Tim> almost useless as a general purpose solution.
So I'll ask again: what real problems that we've missed in g77 support
traffic does it not address? (I'm not arguing and I'd like to know
about them for support purposes.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-20 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-13 18:23 Stephen L Moshier
1998-12-14 1:52 ` Harvey J. Stein
1998-12-14 14:56 ` Edward Jason Riedy
1998-12-14 17:20 ` Joe Buck
1998-12-14 18:51 ` Edward Jason Riedy
1998-12-14 21:54 ` Craig Burley
1998-12-15 14:31 ` Edward Jason Riedy
1998-12-15 17:11 ` Jamie Lokier
1998-12-16 0:26 ` Harvey J. Stein
1998-12-16 9:33 ` Craig Burley
1998-12-16 12:18 ` Harvey J. Stein
1998-12-16 9:38 ` Craig Burley
1998-12-16 12:25 ` Marc Lehmann
1998-12-16 12:50 ` Tim Hollebeek
1998-12-16 13:04 ` Harvey J. Stein
1998-12-16 14:01 ` Marc Lehmann
1998-12-17 11:26 ` Dave Love
1998-12-17 15:06 ` Marc Lehmann
1998-12-18 12:50 ` Dave Love
1998-12-19 14:09 ` Marc Lehmann
1998-12-20 11:28 ` Dave Love
1998-12-20 11:24 ` Dave Love [this message]
1998-12-16 23:11 ` Joern Rennecke
1998-12-17 6:07 ` Jamie Lokier
1998-12-14 22:54 ` Craig Burley
1998-12-15 1:45 Geert Bosch
1998-12-15 3:34 ` Harvey J. Stein
1998-12-16 10:36 ` Craig Burley
1998-12-16 12:47 ` Harvey J. Stein
1998-12-17 10:22 ` Craig Burley
1998-12-17 14:54 ` Marc Lehmann
1998-12-19 0:27 ` Craig Burley
1998-12-19 5:06 ` Stephen L Moshier
1998-12-15 6:43 ` Stephen L Moshier
1998-12-16 10:14 ` Craig Burley
1998-12-15 9:29 ` Joe Buck
1998-12-15 10:14 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-12-16 8:32 ` Sylvain Pion
1998-12-16 9:20 ` Craig Burley
1998-12-15 12:10 Geert Bosch
1998-12-15 13:09 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-12-15 12:24 Toon Moene
1998-12-15 12:55 ` Joe Buck
1998-12-15 15:05 ` Edward Jason Riedy
1998-12-16 10:05 ` Craig Burley
1998-12-16 13:52 Toon Moene
1998-12-17 10:06 ` Craig Burley
1998-12-17 12:16 ` Harvey J. Stein
1998-12-19 0:29 ` Craig Burley
1998-12-17 11:20 ` Dave Love
1998-12-17 11:27 Brad Lucier
1998-12-17 14:51 ` Marc Lehmann
1998-12-19 0:17 ` Craig Burley
1998-12-19 6:42 ` Emil Hallin
1998-12-19 14:26 ` Dave Love
1998-12-17 14:37 tprince
1998-12-17 15:15 ` Stephen L Moshier
1998-12-17 14:38 Toon Moene
1998-12-17 15:30 ` Harvey J. Stein
1998-12-18 1:54 ` Toon Moene
1998-12-18 3:05 ` Harvey J. Stein
1998-12-18 9:01 ` Toon Moene
1998-12-18 15:59 ` Richard Henderson
1998-12-18 13:26 ` Marc Lehmann
1998-12-18 12:50 ` Dave Love
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