i = i * f vs. i *= f
Chris Maltby
chris at basser.SUN
Fri Apr 27 01:03:18 AEST 1984
>This is the same on 4.2bsd also. I Thought I would try it on our C
>compiler on our Prime and the results were
>19
>19
>So it is sort of better, with floats the result was 19.999996 so it was
>almost 20.
Everyone knows that floating point units on PR1ME machines are up the sh*t.
If anyone would like proof of this, I can send you a nice program to run.
Chris Maltby
University of Sydney
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