On 5/18/2016 3:15 AM, deadalnix wrote:
On Wednesday, 18 May 2016 at 08:21:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Trying to make D behave exactly like various C++ compilers do, with all their
semi-documented behavior and semi-documented switches that affect constant
folding behavior, is a hopeless task.
I doubt various C++ compilers are this compatible, even if they follow the
same ABI.
They aren't. For instance, GCC use arbitrary precision FB, and LLVM uses 128
bits soft floats in their innards.
Looks like LLVM had the same idea as myself.
Anyhow, this pretty much destroys the idea that I have proposed some sort of
cowboy FP that's going to wreck FP programs.
(What is arbitrary precision FB?)
