On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Uncle George wrote:
> Not its not. It is the 'cost' of the 'parsed' branch trees that are
> causing the final display to be slightly different. If one were to
> change the size of an 'internal' 'C struct' to be the same size of an
> 'i386' 'C struct' then the results are the same ( or at least make the
> sizeof() values the same ) then the results would be the same.
>
> as for the differences in the 'off by a small fraction' is due to i386
> having 80bit float operations, and the alpha does 64bit float
> operations. ( Both under the same ieee mandate to do the same
> algorithm)
> gat
Thank you for those clarifications.
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