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Date:      Fri, 07 Feb 2003 15:16:52 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu
Cc:        mike@FreeBSD.ORG, standards@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au
Subject:   Re: fpclassify() for review
Message-ID:  <20030207.151652.38309440.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <200302071825.h17IP4s7081758@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <20030206224455.B78590@espresso.q9media.com> <200302071825.h17IP4s7081758@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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In message: <200302071825.h17IP4s7081758@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
            Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> writes:
: I think that, if we had some help from the compiler, it ought to be
: possible to implement FLT_EVAL_METHOD == 2 for i386, and that's
: probably the closest to the actual hardware implementation.  Something
: similar to Kahan's PARANOIA ought to be able to distinguish the
: various methods and thereby serve as a regression test.

What's FLT_EVAL_METHOD == 2 mean?

I'd love to make the long doubles actually have their full range by
default.

Warner

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