Re: I don't know if anyone else cares, but

[Joe Neeman]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) <address@hidden> wrote:

Offtopic, but I'm always wondering, how this can happen.
What changed in the last 10 years? The C++ specification or the Intel architecture?
Could you explain?

I suspect it's just the ability of modern compilers to optimise things cleverly, which probably eliminates register spills in some situations and interacts in a strange way with x87's non-IEEE behaviour. The gcc bug is after all very old, so it isn't that the problem is recent.

Joe