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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: Floating-point problems with gcc 3.2
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sjs@essex.ac.uk (Dr Steve Sangwine) wrote in message news:<3df73bcc.15483884@news.essex.ac.uk>...
> I have been trying out gcc 3.2 in order to link Fortran code with Ada
> and I have encountered problems with floating point. Ada code that
...
> I have also seen problems with Fortran code giving incorrect
> floating-point results. I seem to recall seeing somewhere something
> about a known problem with the floating-point unit not being properly
> initialised or reloaded on a context switch. Has anyone else hit this
> problem?

The place to look for this information would be the gcc mailing list,
archived at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/ .

If there's a known problem in something as pervasive as
floating-point, it will surely have been discussed there.