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Re:Floating point oddity by tlb on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:59PM (#21511168)
It works if the compiler can't do constant folding, like so: https://godbolt.org/z/nQDrSW
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Re:Floating point oddity by excessive on Monday November 11, 2019 @10:04PM (#21511199)
Your first line of main is adding -0.0 and -0.0, which is not what I think you intended to show.
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Re:Floating point oddity by tlb on Monday November 11, 2019 @10:24PM (#21511272)
Oops, you're right. https://godbolt.org/z/pAwqUA shows it better. Adding a -0 and +0 together in either order gives +0, using the actual x86-64 addsd instruction.
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