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> Then it truly is irrelevant! You're not even talking about CPUs vs CPUs.

Why does that matter? The bulk of the issues come from implementation defined behavior, of which there is plenty within x86 itself to cause issues.

In general, the IEEE-compliant parts of x86 are also IEEE-compliant on other processors, at least the ones I've dealt with. It's the operations that aren't specified by IEEE that cause problems.



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