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

[Seth Grover]

Florian wrote:

> How should the compiler know that the division should be done using
> double? Using always double slows down calculations. Because the range
> of longword fits into a single as well as 24, fpc uses a single division.
...
> This is not possible. Especially i386/x87 behaves really strange because
> it does calculations always with extended.


Thank you for the explanation. That, together with the link to the
"user changes in 2.2.0" page on the wiki, explains the behavior. I
appreciate your taking the time to respond. Have a great weekend!

-SG

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