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From: Andrew Haley <aph@cambridge.redhat.com>
To: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm@hp.com>
Cc: "'java@gcc.gnu.org'" <java@gcc.gnu.org>,
	"'tromey@redhat.com'" <tromey@redhat.com>
Subject: Problem with interpreted double operations on IA64
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 09:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15539.6328.389743.798857@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40700B4C02ABD5119F000090278766443BF19D@hplex1.hpl.hp.com>

Boehm, Hans writes:
 > Could someone point me at a description of exactly how type __java_double
 > should differ from double?  As far as I can tell, __java_double is used
 > primarily by the interpreter?  On X86 this seems to work correctly.  On IA64
 > (and perhaps other 64-bit platforms?), it seems to get confused about the
 > low order bits.  This means that "double precision" results in the
 > interpreter are computed at most to single precision accuracy.  Here's a C++
 > example to demonstrate the issue.  Gij runs into the same problems, causing
 > scimark to fail, etc.  (This is with a very recent 3.1 tree.)

Weird.  Could you please run gcc with '-save-temps -dD' and let us
have the double.ii file you get?

Andrew.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-09 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-09  9:37 Boehm, Hans
2002-04-09  9:43 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
2002-04-09 10:51 ` Tom Tromey
2002-04-09  9:43 Boehm, Hans
2002-04-09 10:01 ` Andrew Haley
2002-04-09 10:30 ` Per Bothner

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