On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 18:54, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > That is, of course one of the issues. The i386 IEEE implementation > is not the same as the mainframe, particularly when two variables > are loaded into registers and arithmetic is applied. The result > will be different. So, one set of "IEEE" arithmetic on a PC > can get very different answers than the same arithmetic on a 390.
And any software relying on that is broken already. Its nice from a formal mathematical happy feeling but otherwise its irrelevant. If your FP is non IEEE then its a whole different ballgame
