Always false float comparisons

Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat May 21 15:05:31 PDT 2016


On 21.05.2016 20:14, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/21/2016 10:03 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> Check out section 5 for some convincing examples showing why the x87
>> is horrible.
>
> The polio vaccine winds up giving a handful of people polio, too.
> ...

People don't get vaccinated without consent.

> It's good to list traps for the unwary in FP usage. It's disingenuous to
> list only problems with one design and pretend there are no traps in
> another design.

Some designs are much better than others.


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