Re: lib/44875

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/44875; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/44875
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:22:08 +0300

 On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:15:05AM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR lib/44875; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: lib/44875
 > Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:14:46 +0200
 > 
 >  On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:10:07AM +0000, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
 >  >  This is a  bug in NetBSD.
 >  
 >  I'm sorry, I still don't get it. How can you tell the difference if not
 >  looking at the source? I even wonder if the compiler would produce different
 >  object code. What am I missing?
 
 You are of course right about the humor with respect to the typical (all? 
 most?) primitive functions in libm, but 'x == y' in any serious FP
 computations is just plain stupid, i.e. cf. it may be that x \approxneq y.