On 2005-06-19 11:42:04 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | I don't understand your "IEEE = IEEE". To make things clearer: > | IEEE 754 explicitly allows an extended exponent range. The ISO C > | language doesn't. But this can be solved by stores, then there > | wouldn't by any problem as far as the standards are concerned. > > Vincent -- > > I recommend you google GCC's archive for past discussions on this > issue. This is not the first time it is being discussed. If I > remember correctly, core back-end people looked at it and concluded > that fixing it requires a *major* rewrite of the back-end, if at all > possible [1].
OK, I'm not saying that this is simple. I'm just saying that it *can* be solved. Even if the fix is complex, it is not a reason to mark the bug as INVALID. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
