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careful what you wish for, x87's extended precision is what wrote the original bug: 80 bits in registers,64 on a spill, so the value depended on register pressure

ARM and WASM dropped it for a reason, and more bits would not help anyway, a sign is one bit, any rounding step that disagrees at the last bit flips it

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