[Gcl-devel] Re: m68k gcl/maxima: Minor Floating point errors

[Richard Zidlicky]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:17:49AM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:

> That did it -- thanks!  As Richard Fateman observed, its quite
> surprising the magnitude of the difference was so large.  Apparently
> m68k has the more accurate answer, right?  In any case, I'm adding
> -ffloat-store to gcl's compile flags on m68k to avoid testing
> problems. 

try to avoid that if possible, it has some runtime overhead. Wouldn't 
it be possible to use the extra precision? Declare the doubles as
'long double' to avoid surprising results.

Richard