Question/request/bug(?) re. floating-point in dmd
David Nadlinger
code at klickverbot.at
Wed Oct 23 09:22:10 PDT 2013
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 16:15:56 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
> A D compiler is allowed to compute floating point results at
> arbitrarily large precision - the storage size (float, double,
> real) only specify the minimum precision.
>
> This behavior is fairly deeply embedded into the front end,
> optimizer, and various back ends.
I know we've had this topic before, but just for the record, I'm
still not sold on the idea of allowing CTFE to yield different
results than runtime execution.
David
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