[Bug 697715] floating point precision problem in check test gst/gstvalue

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697715
  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | 1.x

--- Comment #3 from Alexander Schrab <alexas at axis.com> 2013-04-11 07:50:35 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> What do you mean by "extended precision kicking in for some of the
> calculations"?  64-bit CPUs don't have any additional floating point precision.

I meant, but I realize I might be wrong, that the calculations might be handled
in 80 bit etxtended fp registers for x86. But I think that is true for 32 bit
as well... But any number of things could be different between 64 bit and 32
bit, so it was just speculation.

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