dmd 1.053 and 2.037 release

dsimcha dsimcha at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 10 18:29:56 PST 2009


== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
> Brad Roberts wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Walter Bright wrote:
> >
> >> Don wrote:
> >>> I had a further look at this. The compiler *is* creating doubles and floats
> >>> as signalling NaNs. Turns out, that there are slight differences between
> >>> processors in the way they treat signalling NaNs, especially between Intel
> >>> vs AMD. Intel Core2 triggers SNANs when loading floats & doubles, but
> >>> *doesn't* trigger for 80-bit SNANs. The Pentium M that I did most of my
> >>> testing on, didn't trigger for any of them. AMD's docs say that it triggers
> >>> for all of them.
> >>> Won't be too hard to fix.
> >>
> >> How do we fix the CPU? ;-)
> >
> > A soldering iron with a really sharp point?
> >
> > Or maybe a sledgehammer.
> I was thinking 220VAC might help!

Yep, on that voltage 10 GHz overclocks seems possible.


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