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Re: glibc conditioning

To: Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun dot com>
Subject: Re: glibc conditioning
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 29 Aug 2001 00:49:41 -0700
Cc: zhaojs at cadence dot com, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, stevew at srware dot com
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Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> writes:

> That may work for your particular example, but it does not guarantee
> consistency for all applications.  When the x86 FPU operates in 64-bit
> mode, it does not conform to the IEEE floating point standard.  In
> some cases, behavior will still disagree with your other platforms.

And most importantly: the math library will produce wrong results.

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