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- From: volker@vb.franken.de (Volker Barthelmann)
- Subject: Re: PPC compilers
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- Date: 10 Jan 96 01:46:21 MET
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- Arno Eigenwillig (arno@yaps.rhein.de) wrote:
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- : Would you concede that what matters about the properties of floating
- : point types for fp calculations is not their actual representation on
- : hardware level, but their behaviour, i.e. a strict definition of what
- : value a certain operation on two given values produces?
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- Yes.
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- : I admit that the current ANSI C Standard gives insufficient guarantees
- : for real number-crunching projects. Usually you can only achieve more
- : limited portability, say, ANSI C with IEEE-nnn fp.
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- Exactly.
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- Volker
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