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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Float conversion
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On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:36:28 +0100, 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.

That reminds me the old programmer's saying: never test for the bugs you
cannot fix.

(:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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