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by tgjsrkghruksd 3369 days ago
As bug #323 points out, truncating floats is an incomplete solution and brings its own problems. The GNU people were not simply being lazy or ignorant, their approach was valid.

The "bug" is x87 design, period. And x87 is the past. It's old, and bad. SSE and IEEE 754 is the present.