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SubjectRe: floating-point abuse in 2.1.113
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> I don't think this is a big problem anymore with mostly all CPUs supporting
> standard IEEE floating point arithmetic. Is there any Linux target that has
> non-IEEE FP? I doubt it.

VAX. Also, for example i386 has 80-bit floating point, which no other
system have, and I think Alpha and Sparc64 have 128-bit.

> Gcc combines floating point constants in constant expressions, even when
> cross compiling.

Are you sure? Or only if the source and target use the same formats?

-hpa

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