Re:A critique of "How to C in 2016"
by GFK_of_xmaspast on Friday January 15, 2016 @01:42PM
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If you're in a situation where you need specific implementation details of floating point arithmetic, then may the devil have mercy on your soul, because god certainly won't.
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Wouldn't debugging / testability imply this is a fairly large proportion of programs? Having a calculation give different results on different hardware would make testing difficult: http://yosefk.com/blog/consistency-how-to-defeat-the-purpose...
Re:A critique of "How to C in 2016"
by GFK_of_xmaspast on Friday January 15, 2016 @04:01PM
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Your own link explains how easy it is to get different results even on the same hardware depending on compiler flags.