Tim Peters <t...@python.org> added the comment:
There are a couple bug reports here that have been open for years, and it's about time we closed them. My stance: if any platform still exists on which "double rounding" is still a potential problem, Python _configuration_ should be changed to disable double rounding on such platforms (there's usually a C compiler flag that can make this happen, but even if there isn't a couple lines of inline assembler could be added at Python startup to set the Pentium's FPU "precision control" bits to "round to 53 bits" mode). `random` is a red herring here! We don't want gratuitously different results across 754 boxes in any operations. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue24567> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
