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Re: gcc bug: different results between -O0 and -O1
- To: gilles civario <civario at mimosa dot ceng dot cea dot fr>
- Subject: Re: gcc bug: different results between -O0 and -O1
- From: egor duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:45:24 +0300
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Organization: deo
- References: <3BEFA31B.B06D4C37@mimosa.ceng.cea.fr>
- Reply-to: egor duda <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Hi!
Monday, 12 November, 2001 gilles civario civario@mimosa.ceng.cea.fr wrote:
gc> Wile developing a performance test program for gettimeofday resolution,
gc> I found a strange behavior for gcc under cygwin with the -O flags.
gc> Everywhere else with native compiler or with gcc, the program return constant
gc> results, with or without optimization. (On Sun, Dec, Linux and Fujitsu)
gc> Only with cygwin, the result is divided by 5000 from -O0 to -O1, both with
gc> gcc version 2.95.3-5 (cygwin special) and gcc version 3.0.2.
gc> But it shouldn't. Ok for a little increase, but not for 5000 !
you cannot reliably test float values for equality. you should rethink
the logic of your boucle () function to get reliable results.
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
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