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From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ices.utexas.edu>
To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org,
Subject: Re: optimization/10772: Result differences between debug and optmize libs on linux; and with sol/nt on optimize mode
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030514205601.18711.qmail@sources.redhat.com> (raw)

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The following reply was made to PR optimization/10772; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ices.utexas.edu>
To: omar beo <omarbeo@hotmail.com>
Cc: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: optimization/10772: Result differences between debug and optmize
 libs on linux; and with sol/nt on optimize mode
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:52:52 -0500 (CDT)

 > But this did not answer the original question, why I’m not getting the same 
 > results in the other platforms?
 
 Because x86 has a fundamentally broken floating point model with different 
 accuracy of floats in registers and in memory. x86 FP computations are 
 fundamentally unreliable if you're used to thinking in what "decent" 
 processors do.
 
 W.
 
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 Wolfgang Bangerth              email:            bangerth@ices.utexas.edu
                                www: http://www.ices.utexas.edu/~bangerth/
 
 


             reply	other threads:[~2003-05-14 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-14 20:56 Wolfgang Bangerth [this message]
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2003-05-14 19:26 omar beo
2003-05-14 15:16 omar beo
2003-05-14 15:14 bangerth
2003-05-14 14:36 Christian Ehrhardt
2003-05-14 10:48 giovannibajo
2003-05-14  6:26 Dara Hazeghi
2003-05-13 18:26 omarbeo

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