Re: problem with output of the program on different OS

On May 13, 1:58=A0pm, Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Bart <b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> > There's lots of other uninitialised data which may or may not be
> > affecting anything else. However the 7.08/7.39 discrepancy *was*
> > traced to these zero/near zero values.
>
> Then the problem (or the algorithm) may be unstable, but I am not
> persuaded that the compiler was wrong to produce 0 for the arithmetic
> test case you posted a while back.

There was a /possibility/ of a compiler bug, but until I found one
reason for the discrepancy, we didn't know that for sure. Now it seems
Pelles was correct and the others wrong! (Because by chance Pelles
avoid the near-zero values that caused the indeterminancy later on.)

A proper fix is now up to the OP; I've already suggested care testing
values against /exactly/ 0.0 or 1.0.

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Bartc