From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: t-strtof discrepancies
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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 12:23:25 -0500 (CDT)
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> > E. g. Test 12 above shows 6.87747e-39 with emulation and 2e-39
> > without
> 
> Sounds like a serious bug in the emulator, something that should be
> fixed, IMHO.

If you run the math test suites with and without emulator you will
see other similar numerical deviations.  But they seem confined to
small values.  Since all recent processors contain FPUs in hardware,
I don't think this is a huge issue anymore (not enough that anyone
will want to spend time on it...)