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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 23:27:42 +0200
From: Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com>
To: David Reiss <reiss AT astro DOT washington DOT edu>, beastium-list AT Desk DOT nl
Subject: Re: differences in output between c++ and pg++ compiled programs?
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On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 08:25:07PM +0000, David Reiss wrote:
> Hi. I just discovered pgcc/pg++ and thought it would be great to try on
> my scientific programs which usually take hours to run. I tried
> compiling one program of mine (which uses lots of math routines and some
> C++ classes, etc) in pg++. It compiled fine using -O6 and ran about 4x
> faster than the g++ with -O2! But the numerical output is slightly
> different, basically about 10% off. (Sorry I can't give more detauls w/o

whoaw, great speed improvement ;) alas, the result shouldn't be
10% of.

is it possible to create a (preferably small) testcase that shows this problem?

> explaining what the program does, which would take another 2 pages of 
> typing...suffice it to say its a bunch of operations on floats and float
> arrays with many do loops and reading input data files. It uses a lot of
> routines from the Numerical Recipes text.)

hmm.. does the output agree if you use "-mieee -ffloat-store" (and possibly
-lieee") with both compilers?

> g++ output is exactly the same as the Sun Ultra...so my guess is there's
> something interesting going on with pg++ that I don't understand.

I guess its a bug in pgcc then.

> thanks for any help...it would be great to get this working!

Is that program available anywhere to download? I need to reproduce the
problem on my machine to fix it... (so downloading many megabytes of source
and data is impossible)

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