On 2005-05-31 10:30:52 -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: > If you follow Standard C, you are guaranteed source code portability, in > the program compiles and produce the "same" results with any Standard C > compiler. > > When we start talking about floating-point code, however, we enter the > realm of "result" portability, in that different platforms (or different > compiler swicthes) return slightly different numbers from the same > source code.
This is not much different from integer arithmetic. Standard types such as int may have different sizes on different platforms. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
