Miklos Szigetvari <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can I expect with IEEE floating points, to get the same results in
> Windows as in z/OS ?
> (Seems to us till now, it is not the case, we are using LE C++ in zOS
> and Windows Visual C++, but got differences)
>
Hi Miklos,
Unfortunately, no... the x86 processors support several alternative
sizes of IEEE floating pt values which alters the available precision.
Thus can affect floating point operations to yield different results.
Several x86 compilers offer options that restrict the use of these
alternate precisions.. so, in some circumstances you can alter your
x86 environment to match z/OS.
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