* Floating point differences between solaris and linux
@ 2003-12-25 23:19 Venkatesh Nagarajan
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Venkatesh Nagarajan @ 2003-12-25 23:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-help
Hi
I am using Sun SPARC machine running Solaris 5.6 and an Intel Xeon
machine running 7.3 linux with GCC 2.96.113 compiler.
I am multiplying 2 doubles with a simple program and the answers are
different. What am I missing? Is this a difference in the compiler?
Architecture? Operating System?
Even Linux itself gives two different results with Optimization turned
on and off!!!
Thanks
Venkat
/******************* SOLARIS
************************************************/
evaadmin03:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 49 uname -a
SunOS evaadmin03 5.6 Generic_105181-35 sun4u sparc sun4u
evaadmin03:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 50 cat foo.C
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
double a = 51859.435045995065593160688877;
double b = 51421.349407573121425230056047;
double c = a * b;
printf("%24.24f * %24.24f = %24.24f\n", a, b, c);
return 1;
}
evaadmin03:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 51 CC -o foo.solaris foo.C
evaadmin03:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 52 ./foo.solaris
51859.435045995065593160688877 * 51421.349407573121425230056047 =
2666682129.579454898834228515625000
evaadmin03:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 53
/************************************ LINUX
*****************************************/
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 27 uname -a
Linux evadevel07 2.4.20-20.7smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 14:46:14 EDT 2003 i686
unknown
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 28 g++ -o foo.linux foo.C
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 29 ./foo.
foo.linux* foo.solaris*
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 29 ./foo.linux
51859.435045995065593160688877 * 51421.349407573121425230056047 =
2666682129.579455375671386718750000
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 30
/************************* LINUX differences with and without
optimization flag ***********************************/
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 38 g++ -o foo.linux foo.C
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 39 ./foo.linux
51859.435045995065593160688877 * 51421.349407573121425230056047 =
2666682129.579455375671386718750000
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 40 g++ -O -o foo.linux foo.C
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 41 ./foo.linux
51859.435045995065593160688877 * 51421.349407573121425230056047 =
2666682129.579454898834228515625000
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 42
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* RE: Floating point differences between solaris and linux
@ 2003-12-26 15:17 John Yates
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: John Yates @ 2003-12-26 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Venkatesh Nagarajan, gcc-help
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic:
http://www.esatechnology.com/library/math/floatingmath.pdf
IEEE double has a 53 bit precision. Hence it can resolve
1 part in 2^53. This comes out to a resolution of 1 part
in 9007199254740992. Count them. That's 16 decimal digits.
All of you answers match in the first 15 digits:
2666682129.57945
You are attempting to manipulate numbers specified to 29
digits.
Places where variations will creep in:
- conversion from text to binary
- rounding mode
- possible use of x86 80-bit floating point
- if product is performed at compile time does compiler
produce bit-for-bit identical results
- conversion from binary to text
/john
-----Original Message-----
From: Venkatesh Nagarajan [mailto:venkat@evafunds.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 6:20 PM
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Floating point differences between solaris and linux
Hi
I am using Sun SPARC machine running Solaris 5.6 and an Intel Xeon
machine running 7.3 linux with GCC 2.96.113 compiler.
I am multiplying 2 doubles with a simple program and the answers are
different. What am I missing? Is this a difference in the compiler?
Architecture? Operating System?
Even Linux itself gives two different results with Optimization turned
on and off!!!
Thanks
Venkat
/******************* SOLARIS
************************************************/
evaadmin03:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 49 uname -a
SunOS evaadmin03 5.6 Generic_105181-35 sun4u sparc sun4u
evaadmin03:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 50 cat foo.C
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
double a = 51859.435045995065593160688877;
double b = 51421.349407573121425230056047;
double c = a * b;
printf("%24.24f * %24.24f = %24.24f\n", a, b, c);
return 1;
}
evaadmin03:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 51 CC -o foo.solaris foo.C
evaadmin03:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 52 ./foo.solaris
51859.435045995065593160688877 * 51421.349407573121425230056047 =
2666682129.579454898834228515625000
evaadmin03:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 53
/************************************ LINUX
*****************************************/
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 27 uname -a
Linux evadevel07 2.4.20-20.7smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 14:46:14 EDT 2003 i686
unknown
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 28 g++ -o foo.linux foo.C
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 29 ./foo.
foo.linux* foo.solaris*
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 29 ./foo.linux
51859.435045995065593160688877 * 51421.349407573121425230056047 =
2666682129.579455375671386718750000
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 30
/************************* LINUX differences with and without
optimization flag ***********************************/
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 38 g++ -o foo.linux foo.C
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 39 ./foo.linux
51859.435045995065593160688877 * 51421.349407573121425230056047 =
2666682129.579455375671386718750000
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 40 g++ -O -o foo.linux foo.C
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 41 ./foo.linux
51859.435045995065593160688877 * 51421.349407573121425230056047 =
2666682129.579454898834228515625000
evadevel07:/usr/evahome/venkat/test 42
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