Eric Backus wrote: > I guess I'm in the minority here, but I'll go out on a limb and say that the > original behavior does NOT seem like a defect to me. My reasoning:
You're not on a limb, plenty of people agree with you. Read the comment trail on PR323 to hear all the arguments hashed out in endless depth: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=323 In any event, the way it's being resolved is to give everybody what they want by providing the new -fexcess-precision= switch and let the user choose on a case-by-case basis, which seems nice to me. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
