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WSL is great for when you can tolerate's WSL's incorrect, broken floating point math. [1] If you need your math to be correct, use Cygwin. [1] https://github.

by op00to 8y ago

WSL is great for when you can tolerate's WSL's incorrect, broken floating point math. [1] If you need your math to be correct, use Cygwin. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/830 https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/830

NuSkooler 8y ago
Or pressure MS to fix it. They are rolling updates to WSL quite fast.
- op00to 8y ago
  There's been pressure, it's not a priority.
  - 13of40 8y ago
    It does seem a little niche, to be honest.
mattnewport 8y ago
What's broken is code that relies on long double offering more precision than double and expects to be portable. That's not guaranteed by the standard and isn't going to be true on all architectures.
- lmz 8y ago
  To be fair, WSL claims to be (x86) Linux binary compatible. It's giving different results from actual Linux for the same binary.