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On 8/4/10 9:36 PM, Simon Wright wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov"<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>  writes:
>
>> (some things are stateful. A pipelined CPU pipeline definitely is. We
>> used to ignore that, can we for "exhaustive" testing?)
>
> If we can't we are all doomed.

FPT programs are a little more complex to test in full anyway,
so exhaustion is relative  :-)

The subject seems to have been on the radar since the beginning:
http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83rat/html/ratl-05-03.html#5.3.1

With notes on "=" and "/=" and whether to provide these
operation at all with Ada floating point types.