Re: Intel vs. PPC math gotcha

[Norman Palardy <npalardy at great-white-software dot com>]

On 31-May-07, at 10:06 AM, Dennis Birch wrote:

> On 5/30/07, Mathieu Langlois <realsoftlists at gmail dot com> wrote:
>> Sounds to me like an architectural difference between the 2 cpus.   
>> I doubt
>> RS can do much about it.
>
> Perhaps that is so. In that case, I hope my bringing this up on the
> list is helpful to others.
>
> But it appears to me that it's a case of RB number constants being
> handled differently, which may be within the engineers' control.

Since constants don't let us specify their exact type it could be  
simply how promoting a the single to a double behaves

They derive their type from the contents and so you can't say this  
const is a double, this one a single, this one a Uint64


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