Re: bug in float on Pentium

2001-04-14 Thread Matt Billenstein
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 7:23 PM Subject: bug in float on Pentium | Not sure but I think I found a NEW bug. | | I know that there have been some issues with pentiums and floating point | arrithmatic, but this takes the cake... | | Linux Lserver.org 2.2.18

Re: bug in float on Pentium

2001-04-13 Thread Jonathan Morton
> double x = 5483.99; > float y = 5483.99; >5483.99 >5483.990234 Well, duh. Floats are less accurate than doubles, so what? Read your C textbook again. -- from: Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not fo

Re: bug in float on Pentium

2001-04-13 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:23:24PM -0400, Joe wrote: > Not sure but I think I found a NEW bug. > > I know that there have been some issues with pentiums and floating point > arrithmatic, but this takes the cake... > > Linux Lserver.org 2.2.18 #43 SMP Fri Mar 9 14:19:41 EST 2001 i586 > unknown >

Re: bug in float on Pentium

2001-04-13 Thread Alan Cox
> Not sure but I think I found a NEW bug. > I know that there have been some issues with pentiums and floating point > arrithmatic, but this takes the cake... Hardly. Floats are inaccurate. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EM

bug in float on Pentium

2001-04-13 Thread Joe
Not sure but I think I found a NEW bug. I know that there have been some issues with pentiums and floating point arrithmatic, but this takes the cake... Linux Lserver.org 2.2.18 #43 SMP Fri Mar 9 14:19:41 EST 2001 i586 unknown >kgcc --version egcs-2.91.66 RH 6.2.x / 7.0 try this program #inc