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		pvg on July 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point... Nothing in between the assignment and the check changed the value of x or y What was the check for?

martinpw on July 9, 2019 [–]

There was code in between that could have changed the value, but it was never triggered in the bug case.

pvg on July 9, 2019 | [–]

Ah yeah, that makes sense. Relying on FP equality should always make one's eye twitch a little but this is a neat way of hiding it.

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