Comments on ANSI public Oct 86 Public review draft.

[braner]

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In many numerical programs you do not want to repeat some calculation
if some floating-point variable has not changed.  Therefore,

	double x,y;
	x = y;
	...
	if (x==y) ...

SHOULD be available (and work correctly) even in implementations where
(x*y == y*x) fails.  And it should be no problem to implement, since
x and y are two copies of the same number in the same internal format.
(This is very different from the common mistake of expecting infinite
precision when using FP variables in loop termination criteria...)

- Moshe Braner