Chris Sidi schrieb am Son, 11 Jun 2000:
> In my case, the CPUs are identical (at least they should be - I should
> double check the company who built them got it right), only the platforms
> (and I guess the compilers used) are different. Do different platforms
> get slightly different results for floating point division when using the
> same CPU?
>
> Sorry for my ignorance, the closest thing to this I've studied is MIPS
> assembly.
>
> Thanks,
> Sidi
if the floating point register has ie 80 bit precision, your double in
memory only 64 bit, then the results can be different, depending on the
compilers used and their register management. Even different optimization
strategies can lead to different results with the same compiler.
Robert
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