Subject: Re: -mieee option
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org, fair@clock.org>
From: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/14/1999 23:37:28
> From: "Erik E. Fair" <fair@clock.org>
>
> ::: [ pentium bug ]
The pentium bug wasn't about the last digit of a computation that is probably
about to underflow to zero anyway. It was an error in the 5'th significant
figure of an operation that was supposed to have 17 significant figures.
> :::
> I just want the right answer from dc and bc when I do simple arithmetic.
The bc(1) and dc(1) systems do not use floating point arithmetic at all. Hardly
anything in NetBSD does.
Ross.Harvey@Computer.Org