Questions about IEEE754 floating point in D

[Walter Bright]

Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> Don wrote:
>> I have a vague recollection that this bizarre definition is for 
>> compatibility with an ancient mistake in C. Some clown miscalculated 
>> it, and by the time people realized, they felt it was too late to fix it.
> 
> Then it sounds like something D should get right.

There's a problem with that - porting working C numerics code to D.