BCS: >How much hard core number crunching do you do?< I do FP numeric processing only once in a while, not much.
Steven Schveighoffer: >I also find bearophile's requirement to be able to check that a D program >outputs the same exact floating point digits as a C program ridiculous.< I have done it some times when I translate code from C to D, hoping to use it as a way to test for translation errors, but you are right, different compiler optimizations can produce different results even if the programs use the same data type (like double). Walter Bright >the amount of 0 padding changes between language implementations (not the OS),< Right, on Win32, GDC allocates 12 bytes for the real type, while DMD allocates 10 bytes. As usual what this thread mostly shows is how ignorant I am. My hope is that if I keep learning, eventually I will become able to help D development. Bye and thank you, bearophile
