On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 7:00 PM, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The floating point results returned running fedora8 and fedora9 differ > in the low order bits (same hardware). Does anyone know what might > have changed? Is this a library or C compiler change?
If you're running on x86, then your floating point calculations are at the mercy of how aggressive the compiler is at keeping numbers in registers or other constants folding. Unless, you use certifying libraries such as MPFR. This is to a large extent a hardware problem > > Tim > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Axiom-developer mailing list > Axiom-developer@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer > _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
