On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 07:12:40PM +0100, Lars Bausch wrote:
> 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.

To thest the FPU routines/compiler: from pkgsrc, try the
package benchmarks/paranoia .

Note that it sometimes reports _excess_ precision - e.g., if the compiler
leaves intermediate results in registers that are wider than the target 
type. Your -ffloat-store results probably indicate that this is the case,
without that switch, on i386.

Regards,
	-is