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Re: A BUG of 64-bit integer addition
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John Cowan |
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Re: A BUG of 64-bit integer addition |
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Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:19:11 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Jürgen Kahrs scripsit:
> This is not an error, but a feature.
> As far as I know, it is intentional that gawk uses
> a portable data type that produces the same result
> on every machine.
Does it? The C double type is not technically portable, although it is
portable on all modern CPUs.
--
John Cowan address@hidden http://ccil.org/~cowan
Big as a house, much bigger than a house, it looked to [Sam], a grey-clad
moving hill. Fear and wonder, maybe, enlarged him in the hobbit's eyes,
but the Mumak of Harad was indeed a beast of vast bulk, and the like of him
does not walk now in Middle-earth; his kin that live still in latter days are
but memories of his girth and his majesty. --"Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit"