[fpc-devel] certain divisions in single precision only

[Martok]

> Indeed, this is by design. See 
> https://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.2.0#Floating_point_constants for
> how to explicitly specify a different precision.

That was long before the change Tomas discovered.

The gotcha here is about your fix to
<https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=25121>, which together with the one you
linked made runtime and compile time evaluation the same, at the expense of
specifically breaking Delphi compat.

>From the current Delphi Reference:

> In Delphi, intermediate results of Single precision floating-point
> expressions are always implicitly stored as Extended on x86.
> 
> By default, all x64 arithmetic operations and expressions involving only
> Single precision floating-point values retain high precision by storing
> intermediate results as Double precision values.

But since then, FPC sees Single / Int2Single = Single, with no high precision
intermediates.
There was either a bug or a thread here about the code that broke and some
issues with explicit casts also not helping, but I can't seem to locate either.


Best,

Sebastian