Re: Fixing the symptom…
Yes, it’s a pretty big warning sign.
I bet if they’d run it on a PowerPC based architecture they’d get different results again; different FPU, probably different arithmetic shortcuts. I know that AltiVec would make deliberate but minor errors for the sake of getting operations completed in a single cycle.
I wonder if they’ve had that code peer reviewed by a computer scientist?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
