Always false float comparisons

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 21.05.2016 15:45, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 21.05.2016 00:22, Walter Bright wrote:
>> ...
>> may I present
>> Kahan who concurrently designed the IEEE 754 spec and the x87.
>>
>
> The x87 is by far not the slam-dunk design you seem to make it out to
> be. ...

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00128124v5/document
Check out section 5 for some convincing examples showing why the x87 is 
horrible.