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

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  OK -- at your request, I've removed the -ffloat-store and
escaped the relevant maxima tests on m68k.  

Take care,

Richard Zidlicky <address@hidden> writes:

> 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
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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