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[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #8157] regexp.cc: prevent cast of negative

From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Subject: [Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #8157] regexp.cc: prevent cast of negative floating point value to uint32_t.
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 15:59:04 +0000
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Follow-up Comment #4, patch #8157 (project octave):

Careful, addition in IEEE754 isn't associative:


a = eps/4; b = -1; c = 1;
(a + b) + c  == a + (b + c)


I wasn't following the problem, so I'm not sure if this is relevant.

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