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Date:      Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:22:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Cc:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu, tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: standards/36783
Message-ID:  <200204121822.g3CIM4491247@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020412.121645.03985114.imp@village.org>
References:  <200204121240.g3CCe3a52899@freefall.freebsd.org> <200204121639.g3CGdOZ90234@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020412.121645.03985114.imp@village.org>

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<<On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:16:45 -0600 (MDT), "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> said:

> This is no longer true.  Long doubles can and do give better precision
> than doubles, but at a high performance cost.

Is GCC now emitting code to change the rounding mode from 53-bit to
80-bit whenever it works with long doubles?

-GAWollman


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