Re: floating-point abuse in 2.1.113

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 04:18:36 +0200


On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 03:36:48AM +0200, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Gcc combines floating point constants in constant expressions, even when
> > cross compiling.
>
> Are you sure? Or only if the source and target use the same formats?

Yes. read gcc/fold-const.c in the gcc source. They go into great pains
to do that.

-Andi

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