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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:59:22 +0100
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Eric Backus wrote:

> I guess I'm in the minority here, but I'll go out on a limb and say that the 
> original behavior does NOT seem like a defect to me.  My reasoning:

  You're not on a limb, plenty of people agree with you.  Read the comment
trail on PR323 to hear all the arguments hashed out in endless depth:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=323

  In any event, the way it's being resolved is to give everybody what they
want by providing the new -fexcess-precision= switch and let the user choose
on a case-by-case basis, which seems nice to me.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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