Always false float comparisons

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 16 May 2016 at 20:27, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 5/16/16 12:37 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> Me, I think of that as "Who cares that you paid $$$ for an 80 bit CPU,
>> we're going to give you only 64 bits."
>
>
> I'm not sure about this. My understanding is that all SSE has hardware for
> 32 and 64 bit floats, and the the 80-bit hardware is pretty much
> cut-and-pasted from the x87 days without anyone really looking in improving
> it. And that's been the case for more than a decade. Is that correct?

It's not only correct, but it's also deprecated, and may be removed
from silicone (ie, emulated/microcoded, is it's not already...) at
some unknown point in the future.