Re: GUB and mpfr/mpc

[David Kastrup]

Masamichi HOSODA <address@hidden> writes:

>> I agree that changing the algorithms is preferred; I didn’t mean to
> suggest otherwise.  But if that’s not going to happen overnight, and
> there is a way to mitigate the problem in the meantime without
> touching the code, the people affected would value it.
>
> I tried "-mfpmath=sse -msse2".
> It worked fine. bad_alloc didn't occur.
> Correct PDF was generated.
>
> It can be a workaround until changing the algorithms.

It's not architecture independent.  And may blow up for other reasons.

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David Kastrup