[m-dev.] arithmetic simplification

Thomas Conway conway at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Wed Nov 24 12:01:09 AEDT 1999


Hi

I was just noticing that the compiler doesn't simplify floating point
multiplications by either 1.000000000 or 0.0000000000. Is this because
noone got round to it, or is it because it changes program semantics?

Thomas
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