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Re: [PATCH] Update sparc ULPs.
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, David Miller wrote:
> That's all fine and well, but I should note that the float versions of
> these routines use the same exact value of tiny as the double ones.
It's safe (other than possibly getting spurious underflows in some cases)
to use a value that's smaller than necessary (e.g. using a double value in
a float function), but not to use one that's too large (e.g. using a
double value in a long double function).
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