Subject: Re: accuracy of "long double"
To: Krister Walfridsson <cato@df.lth.se>
From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
List: port-amd64
Date: 08/20/2007 15:27:20
cato@df.lth.se said:
> I was planning to submit the TARGET_96_ROUND_53_LONG_DOUBLE to
> gcc-current some weeks ago, but testing showed that this had some
> issues
I've enabled it on a -current box and found that it works
as expected. It makes some problems more obvious which we
have anyway, eg that DBL_MAX overflows, but this is not
gcc's fault.
Didn't try the gcc testsuite.
Which problems do you see?
best regards
Matthias
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