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Good answer

Good answer

Posted Dec 10, 2008 11:17 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Good answer by khim
Parent article: PHP 5.2.7 withdrawn

Why special casing C over this ? The IEEE754 standard is not C specific, other languages support it (C++, etc) and have the exact same issue.

In the end it is more of a hardware issue (if you want to use the FPU of your machine in a portable way, you have to deal with IEEE754 semantic).


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