[ODE] Re: Deterministic simulation on multiple clients

[Adam D. Moss]

Jon Watte wrote:
 > Taking exceptions/signals may also re-set the
> rounding mode and/or the internal precision mode. To be sure, just 
> slam it to what you want at the beginning of each step.

Is this the sort of thing that OS's also guarantee to preserve
as part of the saved FPU state across a context-switch?  Otherwise I
can envisage the nightmare of a context-switch to another process (or
thread) that changes FPU precision on you mid-step.  Brr.

--Adam
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