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Re: [PATCH] Use -frounding-math for math testsuite
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2012, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 16:32:23 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2 May 2012, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > > > Please commit this. Strictly we should compile all the libraries with
> > > > -frounding-math as well, since library functions may be called in any
> > > > rounding mode (and without -frounding-math, round-to-nearest is
> > > > assumed); the only things for which it's not needed are the
> > > > miscellaneous executables, and those testcases (i.e. all except the
> > > > ones this patch addresses) that don't change the rounding mode.
> > >
> > > Incidentally, compiling libraries with -frounding-math should fix bugs
> > > such as <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10846> with
> > > missing underflow exceptions (it's still a GCC bug that it folds these
> > > underflowing operations with -ftrapping-math -fno-rounding-math, but
> > > -frounding-math works around the GCC bug by disabling that folding since
> > > the result is inexact).
> >
> > Do you really mean all libraries - or just the math subdirectory?
>
> I mean all libraries - every shared object that glibc installs, as opposed
> to ones built only as part of the testsuite (for which it is unnecessary,
> if harmless). For most of them it won't make a practical difference (code
> generated ought to be unchanged), in that they don't actually do floating
> point, but there's the odd bit outside libm where rounding modes are
> relevant (there are open bugs about strtod and printf not respecting them
> ... although since those work with integer operations, it's likely
> -frounding-math won't actually affect the code generated for them).
There is also -fsignalling-nans which is off by default, too. Not sure
if that makes a difference though, but GCC for example folds x + 0.0 to
x with the default setting.
Richard.
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