Bradley Lucier wrote:
What about "significant loss of accuracy" as these options probably
won't cause a nuclear reactor meltdown ;)
Well, I did some googling, and the technical term I was thinking of
was "catastrophic cancellation". So how about
Note that some mathematical routines in such libraries could suffer
significant loss of accuracy, typically through so-called
"catastrophic cancellation", when this option is used to set the
precision to less than extended precision.
I think this is OK. So if nobody objects, this patch is OK for mainline.
Thanks,
Uros.
