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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 13:25:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: standards@FreeBSD.ORG, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: fpclassify() for review
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I think that, if we had some help from the compiler, it ought to be
possible to implement FLT_EVAL_METHOD == 2 for i386, and that's
probably the closest to the actual hardware implementation.  Something
similar to Kahan's PARANOIA ought to be able to distinguish the
various methods and thereby serve as a regression test.

-GAWollman


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