Re: [Valgrind-developers] valgrind and subtle floating point problem

[Vince W. <vi...@cs...>]

> If this comparison is not in a an inner loop, can you do some nasty
> kludge like masking off the lowest couple of mantissa bits before
> doing the comparison?

I was thinking about trying that as a last resort.

I came across an interesting paper:
   http://www.wrcad.com/linux_numerics.txt

Maybe I can try forcing art to use FPU_DOUBLE mode instead of FPU_EXTENDED
in the manner described in the paper...

Vince