questions about NetBSD port

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 4 February 2016 at 12:29, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 2/3/2016 11:41 PM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
>> Actually, I found the reverse! One of the inline assembly version paths
>> are
>> correct up to double precision, the platform agnostic path I ported does
>> not
>> have this problem, but fails the tests.
>>
>> Adjusting them will *expose* the buggy algorithm for what it really is.
>>
>>
> I don't understand. How can reducing precision of the test expose bugs?
>

The literal being used to compare the result was wrong (by 12 mantissa
bits) in the first place.
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