Phobos unit testing uncovers a CPU bug

[Mike James]

If it happens once its a bug, if its repeatable its a feature ;-)

-=mike=-

"Kagamin" <spam at here.lot> wrote in message 
news:icth6h$1nqe$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Don Wrote:
>
>> The Intel CPU gives the correct answer, but AMD's is wrong. They should
>> both give the correct result.
>
> Really? I think, the answer is neither correct nor wrong. It's 
> approximate.
> If your friend's program operates on ~0x1p+40 values and critically 
> depends on on the value of the last bit, then double precision doesn't 
> suit his needs (on both Intel and AMD), he should take a couple of classes 
> on computational theory and rewrite his algorithm, or use arithmetic with 
> higher precision.