On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Robert Dewar wrote:
Mattias Karlsson wrote:Don't know about you, but I consider any processor that is unable to store a register to memory and then read back the same value to be buggy.THe x86/x87 does not violate this requirement
In my Obi-Wan-Point-Of-View it does. :-)This entire debate comes from one thing: currently floating point has always type long double untill stored to memory, regardless of user-specified type. At -O1 this becomes more or less non-deterministic.