From: Petr Savicky <savicky@cs.cas.cz>
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: where to discuss problems with IEEE 754 standard on x86 architecture?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 20:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070522194435.GC29083@cs.cas.cz> (raw)
Can anybody help me to find the right place to discuss the problems
related to IEEE 754 standard for floating point numbers on x86 (IA-32)?
The following code
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
double x,y,z,m=1.0;
for (int i=0; i<52; i++) { m *= 2.0; }
x = 1.5 - 1.0/4096.0 - 1.0/m;
y = 1.5 - 1.0/4096.0;
z = 1.0 + 1.0/m*x;
printf("%f\n",m*(z-1.0));
z = 1.0 + 1.0/m*y;
printf("%f\n",m*(z-1.0));
}
produces output
1.000000
2.000000
on x86 (IA-32) processor. In my opinion, this implies that IA-32 processor
does not follow IEEE 754 exactly, since the closest representable
value to both 1.0 + 1.0/m*x and 1.0 + 1.0/m*y is z = 1.0 + 1.0/m
and not z = 1.0 + 2.0/m, which is obtained in the second case.
Am I right? If yes, I think that the problem is known. Are there web
pages or other resources on this problem?
Thank you very much for any information.
All the best, Petr.
next reply other threads:[~2007-05-22 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 20:05 Petr Savicky [this message]
2007-05-22 20:06 ` John (Eljay) Love-Jensen
2007-05-23 12:54 ` Andrew Haley
2007-05-22 20:25 Nick Maclaren
2007-05-22 20:41 Nick Maclaren
2007-05-23 7:44 ` Petr Savicky
2007-05-23 8:17 ` Nick Maclaren
2007-05-23 8:46 ` Brian Dessent
2007-05-23 13:30 ` Tim Prince
2007-05-23 17:23 ` Petr Savicky
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