Re: Intel vs. PPC math gotcha

["Dennis Birch" <dennisbirch at gmail dot com>]

On 5/31/07, Norman Palardy <npalardy at great-white-software dot com> wrote:
>
> On 31-May-07, at 10:06 AM, Dennis Birch wrote:
> > But it appears to me that it's a case of RB number constants being
> > handled differently, which may be within the engineers' control.
>
> Since constants don't let us specify their exact type it could be
> simply how promoting a the single to a double behaves
>
> They derive their type from the contents and so you can't say this
> const is a double, this one a single, this one a Uint64

But you could expect RB to offer consistent behavior between platforms.
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