From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Geoff Keating <geoffk@redhat.com>
Cc: moshier@moshier.net, fxzhang@ict.ac.cn, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com,
libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: math broken on mips
Date: 18 Feb 2002 12:44:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3adu6bjv7.fsf@myware.mynet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202182018.g1IKIk802891@desire.geoffk.org>
Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:
> Maybe we should add appropriate fesetround() calls to the math
> library?
No, this would punish the people who do not do stupid things with
rounding modes. The user must know much better where such changes are
needed.
As you mentioned, there is no promise of precision in the standard
therefore everything is just fine as it is, standard-wise.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-18 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-18 19:50 math broken on mips Stephen L Moshier
2002-02-18 19:50 ` Stephen L Moshier
2002-02-18 20:18 ` Geoff Keating
2002-02-18 20:23 ` Stephen L Moshier
2002-02-18 20:23 ` Stephen L Moshier
2002-02-18 20:45 ` Geoff Keating
2002-02-18 21:06 ` Stephen L Moshier
2002-02-18 21:06 ` Stephen L Moshier
2002-02-18 21:39 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-02-18 21:39 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-02-18 20:44 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2002-02-18 21:07 ` Andreas Schwab
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2002-02-18 7:57 Zhang Fuxin
2002-02-18 8:18 ` H . J . Lu
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