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Re:GCC Non-bugs by McKayDavis on Monday March 02, 2015 @02:49AM (#9130787)
Are you familiar with the IEEE 754-2008 specification of decimal floating point format?

From Wikipedia's entry on decimal64[1]: "It is intended for applications where it is necessary to emulate decimal rounding exactly, such as financial and tax computations."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_format

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Re:GCC Non-bugs by shortstuffsushi on Monday March 02, 2015 @11:57AM (#9132838)
No, I was not. I'm assuming that the standard double or float do not conform to this spec, though, right?
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