Re: Netbeans 12.5 and OpenJDK 17, still with floating point errors?

2021-11-18 Thread Pieter van den Hombergh
atter defaulting floating point defaulting behaviour with > OpenJDK 17? > > ---------- > *From:* Rob Walker > *Sent:* Wednesday, 17 November 2021 8:31 PM > *To:* Pieter van den Hombergh ; A Z < > powerus...@live.com.au> > *Cc:* users@netbeans.apache.org

Re: Netbeans 12.5 and OpenJDK 17, still with floating point errors?

2021-11-17 Thread A Z
November 2021 8:31 PM To: Pieter van den Hombergh ; A Z Cc: users@netbeans.apache.org Subject: RE: Netbeans 12.5 and OpenJDK 17, still with floating point errors? Love your answer Pieter – I can almost hear the words of my late father (who was a scientist and a computer geek) “… if you wa

RE: Netbeans 12.5 and OpenJDK 17, still with floating point errors?

2021-11-17 Thread Rob Walker
Hombergh Sent: 17 November 2021 09:19 To: A Z Cc: users@netbeans.apache.org Subject: Re: Netbeans 12.5 and OpenJDK 17, still with floating point errors? You may be misled by the name strictfp. strictfp means that the results are independent of the platform and or implementation, so that the

Re: Netbeans 12.5 and OpenJDK 17, still with floating point errors?

2021-11-17 Thread Pieter van den Hombergh
You may be misled by the name strictfp. strictfp means that the results are independent of the platform and or implementation, so that the results will be the same always. This was an aspect because of the fact that intel FP processors use 80 bits internal, which can produce different results in s