On Jan 9, 2009, at 3:08 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

>
>> Is it at all possible to get the x86 FPU to produce the correct result
>> for this situation?
>
> You can also try compiling the Squeak VM with -mfpmath=sse.

That should work, as long as you are running it on x86 processors that 
support SSE2 with double-precision scalar operations.  The SSE 
floating-point unit(s) perform true single- and double-precision 
arithmetic.

	-- tim