@rygorous @FioraAeterna The "what" is boring. The "why" is endlessly fascinating.
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Replying to @stephentyrone
@stephentyrone@FioraAeterna IIRC, it was just Kahan worrying about complex variables again. :)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @rygorous
@rygorous@stephentyrone <Kahan voice> but if we don't have enough floating point precision, the world order will fall apart2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @FioraAeterna
@rygorous@stephentyrone <compiler dev voice> spilling and restoring a register is no longer idempotent you crazy x87 person1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @FioraAeterna
@FioraAeterna@rygorous "Originally" x87 was supposed to automagically spill into memory at native precision, avoiding the problem.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @stephentyrone
@stephentyrone@FioraAeterna@rygorous This is what GCC has been doing for quite a long time now with -fexcess-precision=standard, implied…1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @volatile_void
@stephentyrone@FioraAeterna@rygorous by -std=c99. Nothing magical about it.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@spun_off
@FioraAeterna@rygorous it was "supposed" to happen without SW management of the stack.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @stephentyrone
@stephentyrone @spun_off@rygorous sounding kinda itanium there2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @FioraAeterna
@FioraAeterna @spun_off@rygorous "My Little Pony: Itanium is Magical"#seeninguangzhou?1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
@stephentyrone @FioraAeterna @spun_off @rygorous More like "The Itanic: My flop will go on (and on and on as long as HP has customers).
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