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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 5754@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5754: Bytecomp Arithmetic test failed
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:05:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vdc7iqxc.fsf@whitebox.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iq88ma6c.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:40:59 -0400")

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> The key is that if I compile Emacs with CFLAGS="-g", then
>
> (funcall
>  (byte-compile
>   (list 'lambda nil
> 	(quote (let ((a (expt 2 -1074)) (b 0.125)) (* a 8 b))))))
>
> returns 0.0.  If I compile Emacs with CFLAGS="-g -O2", then it returns
> 5e-324.
>
> It looks like this may be a compiler bug.

It's most likely the effect of excess precision, due to floating point
values being held in registers instead of reloaded from memory.  Try
-ffloat-store.

Andreas.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-04  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-23  7:47 bug#5754: Bytecomp Arithmetic test failed Juri Linkov
2010-03-23  8:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-23  9:03   ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-23 13:31     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-24 22:15       ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-24 22:52         ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-25  1:15           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-25  1:19             ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-25  7:19 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-30 16:08   ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-03 22:18   ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-03 22:40 ` Chong Yidong
2010-04-03 22:54   ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-03 23:31     ` Chong Yidong
2010-04-04  6:25   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-04  8:05   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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