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Date:      Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:13:17 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
Cc:        toolchain@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Clang as default compiler November 4th
Message-ID:  <20120911181317.GB96512@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20120911171948.GA81334@freebsd.org>
References:  <20120910211207.GC64920@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20120911104518.GF37286@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20120911120649.GA52235@freebsd.org> <20120911132410.GA87126@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <504F4645.4070900@FreeBSD.org> <504F4A6B.4010001@coosemans.org> <20120911151230.GB87526@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20120911171948.GA81334@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 07:19:48PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:12:30AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure if anyone has done any extensive testing.
> > I've started to run some of my test codes to compare
> > certain functions in a clang-compiled libm, gcc-compiled
> > libm, and reference solutions generated from math/mpfr.
> > For a locally patched j0f, I found that clang gave
> > much worse accuracy.  If I revert the local patch,
> > clang and gcc are to give the same results.  Unfortnately,
> > an unpatched j0f gives 500000 ULP errors.
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Can you please provide a small self contained test case that shows
> that clang is doing worse on accuracy than gcc?
> 
> So that we can analyze it and decide if it's a bug in the code or
> in the compiler. So far we know absolutely nothing.
> 
> Thank you, Roman

Unfortunately, supplying a test is going to be problematic.
I thought I had a diff in one of my development trees, so I 
reverted the working copy of msun/e_j0f.c to stock source.
gcc and clang give consistent results with stock e_j0f.c.
When I went to re-apply my local changes, I discovered that
I no longer had a diff.  I think I can recreate the problematic
code, but it will need to wait until the weekend.

-- 
Steve



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