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Re: [aspectj-users] strictfp - what does that mean?
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Mahlzeit ;)
Tobias Demuth wrote:
> I'm trying to understand the meaning of the keyword "strictfp". I have
> found in the documentation the description that "strictfp" makes
> floating point operations "fp-strict", but I don't know what that's
> supposed to mean ... I am not a native speaker (as you may have guessed
> already ;)), so maybe I'm just missing something obvious, but I guess
> an example would help me to understand. Can anyone provide one?
strictfp is not special to AspectJ, it's a regular Java keyword. Here is
an easy explanation:
http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2001/tt0410.html#using
Essentially it gives you the choice between platform-specific and
consistent behaviour when using floats and doubles. For more in-depth
details about floating point arithmetics you can have a look at the
following "standard" article:
http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
hope this helps
Holger
