From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Love To: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: FWD: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86 Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 11:24:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <199812162050.PAA17917@wagner.Princeton.EDU> X-SW-Source: 1998-12/msg00783.html >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Hollebeek 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.)