Adrien Guillon wrote: > I use single-precision floating point operations. > > My understanding, however, is that Intel processors may use extended > precision for some operations anyways unless this is explicitly > disabled, which is done with gcc via the -ffloat-store operation.
IIUC, that forces the FPU to not use the 80 bits in temps, but I think the fpu still uses 64 bits -- or does that flag actually force singles to stay single (32 bit) through the whole process as well? -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion