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Early C compilers made that same mistake.
by nerpderp83 9y ago
Early C compilers made that same mistake.
- slavik81 9y agoIt's the x86 hardware which made the original mistake. Using 80-bit floats in the x87 FPU turned out to be a bad idea. Thankfully, standardizing SSE and SSE2 in x86-64 gave us a way out of that mess.