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Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Mon,  4 Mar 2002 09:33:20 -0500
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> i am not an expert on the formal definitions of C, but the code
> rob (from rsc?) posted earlier certainly seemed reasonable (i'm
> refering to the x=sqrt(3.0) stuff). can someone confirm?

it's hard to fault gcc for that.  gcc was compiling for an
environment where double was the highest internal precision,
and got tripped up because the linux guys set the default
internal precision to long double.