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From: lamy@cs.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
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Subject: Re: C code (fwd)
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Date: 1 Mar 90 18:25:15 GMT
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It is interesting to note that one gets the same results on those two pieces
of code when running them on Sun 4s (SunOS 4.0.3), Iris 4d (Irix 3.2 with the
old MIPS compiler) and under gcc on the Sun 4s.  Could compliance to IEEE
rules cause all 3 versions of the floating point code to behave essentially
the same given there is little room for optimizations?

Possibly fishing in the wrong pond,

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@cs.utoronto.ca, uunet!cs.utoronto.ca!lamy
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4