What's new in GCC 4.5?

Posted May 18, 2010 16:50 UTC (Tue) by pharm (guest, #22305)
In reply to: What's new in GCC 4.5? by pharm
Parent article: What's new in GCC 4.5?

Oh wait, I see what you're saying.

I suppose you can set the control word to 53-bit mantissa & copy a value from one FP register to another. That would be a bit slow though.

Posted May 31, 2010 15:52 UTC (Mon) by Spudd86 (subscriber, #51683) [Link]

Err doesn't setting the control word before doing ANYTHING mean that you'll keep a 53 bit mantissa throughout?