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	Hans-Bernhard Broeker on 18 Feb 2004 19:26:25 GMT)
Subject: Re: Cross Platform Incompatabilites? - code fragments
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> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 18 Feb 2004 19:26:25 GMT
> 
> My point was that some *other* part of the environment may be
> twiddling the default precision of the FPU here.  It may be the FPU
> configuration inherited from the environment at program start that's
> different.  More hypothetically, the configuration might even change
> during runtime.

But these factors, while possible, should have caused the program to
behave in a somewhat random fashion, right?  That is, every run of the
program with the same input would come up with a different result,
depending on what other processes run on the box.