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Re: Any objections to swapping base compilers to make gcc4.7 the default?


From: "Sascha Wildner" <saw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:24:03 +0100

> Actually this is a known bug in gcc.  On FreeBSD and DragonFly on i386,  
> the warning about this is FALSE due to nuances in the 53-bit mantissa  
> rounding.

It didn't warn with 4.7 on FreeBSD/i386 when we tested it.

The test program was something like:

#include <float.h>
long double foo = LDBL_MAX;
int main(void) { return 0; }

It would warn on DragonFly/i386 only.

Regards,
Sascha



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