On 2005-05-31 19:30:48 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> IEEE 754 is not mandated by the ISO C{90,99} standards and there are indeed
> platforms where float and double are not using IEEE 754 single resp. double
> precision formats.But without IEEE-754 support, the ISO C99 standard is just a big joke concerning floating point: almost nothing is guaranteed. And yes, I know that there are platforms without IEEE-754 support, where a multiplication by 1.0 may yield an overflow... -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
