[fpc-devel] rounding precision error with integer and floating point division

[Jonas Maebe]

On 18 Nov 2011, at 12:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 2011-11-18 13:04, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>
>> http://wiki.freepascal.org/ 
>> User_Changes_2.2.0#Floating_point_constants
>
> The description of the "new behaviour" should change then. The part  
> that
> says "...which doesn't cause data loss" is now false, given Seth's
> example.

It says that the floating point *constant* (in Seth's example: 24.0)  
is converted to the lowest precision that does not cause data loss. It  
does not say that the resulting calculation will have the same  
precision as before. In fact, the "effect" part says exactly the  
opposite.


Jonas