Bug in floating-point addition: is anyone else seeing this?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> 
> This person who started this thread posted the calculations showing
> that Python was doing the wrong thing, and filed a bug report on it.
> 
> If someone pointed out a similar problem in Flaming Thunder, I would
> agree that Flaming Thunder was doing the wrong thing.
> 
> I would fix the problem a lot faster, though, within hours if
> possible.  Apparently this particular bug has been lurking on Bugzilla
> since 2003: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=323

I wonder how you would accomplish that, given that there is no fix.

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00128124

Diez