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Re: math broken on mips

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
Cc: moshier at moshier dot net, fxzhang at ict dot ac dot cn, linux-mips at oss dot sgi dot com, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: 18 Feb 2002 12:44:28 -0800
Subject: Re: math broken on mips
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202181419220.25604-100000@moshier.net><200202182018.g1IKIk802891@desire.geoffk.org>
Reply-to: drepper at redhat dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

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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References:
- Re: math broken on mips
  - From: Stephen L Moshier
- Re: math broken on mips
  - From: Geoff Keating

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