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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Le Wednesday 27 May 2009 14:59:20, Timo Strunk a écrit :
> The flag -frounding-math also has to be set, when compiling the program
> using CGAL. I don't know if it can somehow be avoided.

No, it cannot be avoided. When the filtered kernel is used, CGAL does precise 
numeric computations, that requires the floating point rounding mode to be 
modified regularly. One cannot assume default floating point rounding. For 
that reason, -frounding-math is required.

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Laurent Rineau, PhD
Engineer at GeometryFactory
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