D float types operations vs C++ ones

[Ola Fosheim Gr via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 07:30:52 UTC, drug wrote:
>> What I mean about order of operations is that if you go
>>   a = b*a+c*c + e;
>> the compiler is free to rewrite that as
>> float __tmp0 = a*b;
>> float __tmp1 = c*c;
>> and then do either of
>> float __tmp2 = __tmp0+__tmp1;
>> a = __tmp2 + e;
>> OR
>> float __tmp2 = __tmp0+e;
>> a = __tmp2+__tmp1;
>
> I see, thanks to all!

I don't think this can be right, unless you use some kind of 
fast-math optimizer.

But:

Modern C++ compilers try to support ieee754-2008, which is needed 
to get reproducible results. D is based on the older 1985 
version, and there is no announced effort to make it modern.