Fun with floating point
Kenny via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Feb 8 01:44:11 PST 2015
> i think you are mixing two things here. IEEE doesn't specify
> which
> internal representation compilers should use, it only specifies
> the
> results for chosen representation. so if D specs states that
> `float`
> calculations are always performing with `float` precision (and
> specs
> aren't), your sample should work.
>
> but the specs says that compiler is free to promote such
> expression to
> any type it wants, it just should not loose precision. so the
> actual type
> of `f` in `f == f + 1.0f` can be freely promoted to `double`,
> `real` or
> even to some GMP representation.
It's clear now, thanks!. Also thanks to everyone for the answers,
it was very helpful.
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