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- From: leebr@skule.ecf.toronto.edu (Brian Lee)
- Subject: f77/gcc and IEEE floating pt standards
- Message-ID: <C1EJMI.7q5@ecf.toronto.edu>
- Sender: leebr@ecf.toronto.edu (LEE BRIAN)
- Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:59:05 GMT
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- I wrote a program that uses double precision floating point in f77
- (I would guess f77 also uses gcc). This program ran and gave the same
- results on a SGI, a MIPS, and several SUN SPARC machines. I ran it on
- my 386 PC (no 387) and got truly *strange* results. My question is:
- * are gcc and f77 supposed to conform to the IEEE fp standards?
- * are there IEEE compliant libraries?
- * are there new versions that do?
- * maybe I am dumb, what am I supposed to do?
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- thanks in advance!
-
- leebr@skule.ecf.toronto.edu
-