Phobos unit testing uncovers a CPU bug
    Walter Bright 
    newshound2 at digitalmars.com
       
    Fri Nov 26 16:37:09 PST 2010
    
    
  
Don wrote:
> The code below compiles to a single machine instruction, yet the results 
> are CPU manufacturer-dependent.
This is awesome work, Don. Kudos to you, David and Dmitry.
BTW, I've read that fine-grained CPU detection can be done, beyond what CPUID 
gives, by examining slight differences in FPU results. I expect that *, +, -, / 
should all give exactly the same answers. But the transcendentals, and obviously 
yl2x, vary.
    
    
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