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A comment on John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with something better. Parent comment

Re:John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with s... by pvg on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:51AM (#20389296)
Nothing in between the assignment and the check changed the value of x or y

What was the check for?

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Re:John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with s... by martinpw on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @02:31AM (#20389449)
There was code in between that could have changed the value, but it was never triggered in the bug case.
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Re:John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with s... by pvg on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @03:47AM (#20389740)
Ah yeah, that makes sense. Relying on FP equality should always make one's eye twitch a little but this is a neat way of hiding it.
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