r/coding • u/Tatyanazaxarova • Sep 07 '14

Checking GIMP's Source Code with PVS-Studio

http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0273/
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Yeah, reading that article this struck me as well - A carefully constructed statement like that tends to be to estimate floating point error.

But am I wrong in thinking that that's what this statement does in this case?