RE: [boost] Re: Floating Point comparisons

From: Fernando Cacciola (fcacciola_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-11 17:12:32

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From: Paul A. Bristow <boost_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 7:00 PM
Subject: RE: [boost] Re: Floating Point comparisons

> Are you sure we are not duplicating the IEEE compliance tests,
> for example a program called 'paranoia' whose source I could locate.
> (I tested MSVC with this and it passed).
>
> (It does not extend to trig etc functions, so the work discussed is still
> useful).
>
> Paul
>
AFAICT, the test programs that Gennadiy made and all the discussions
thereafter are intended to "understand" the behavior of floating point
computations, not to test a particular implementation.

The intention, if I get it right, is to be able to write a document and
implement some C++ tools to guide and help average programmers to write
numerical oriented applications.

Fernando Cacciola
Sierra s.r.l.
fcacciola_at_[hidden]
www.gosierra.com