Subject: Re: gcc math problems on NetBSD and OpenBSD
To: None <tech-toolchain@NetBSD.org>
From: Lars Bausch <lars.bausch@dotsch.de>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 12/29/2005 19:12:40
Hello !

Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 15:37:09 +0100, Lars Bausch wrote:
>>But with these CFLAGS I have no success on SPARC. On NetBSD the
>>results are some hundret times higher as in the reference, on
>>OpenBSD sometimes double so high.
> 
> As Krister has pointed out, NetBSD gcc defaults to generating code
> that runs on all machines.  Try compiling sparc binaries with -mcpu=v8
I have still tried to compile it as a sparc v8, but the computed results 
are also totaly wrong computed.
My primary major problem is that the math get wrong computed on sparc, 
and totaly out of ranges. The less performance on i386 is only minor.
Regards

Lars