On 04/13/2010 01:22 PM, Matthias Kretz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering why the following code failed:
>
> int main() {
> const float_v x = ...;
> const float_v y = ...;
> float_v r = Vc::sqrt(x * x + y * y);
>
> for (int i = 0; i < Count; ++i) {
> const float a = r[0];
> const float b = std::sqrt(x[0] * x[0] + y[0] * y[0]);
> if (a != b) {
> std::cout << a << " != " << b << ": " << a - b << std::endl;
> return 1;
> }
> }
> return 0;
> }
>
> Output is:
> 1.41421 != 1.41421: 0
>
> float_v is a class from my Vc library (http://gitorious.org/vc/) that wraps
> __m128. Vc::sqrt thus uses the SSE sqrt with single precision. std::sqrt OTOH
> is implemented as fsqrt and the comparison "a != b" is implemented with
> fucomip using the result from fsqrt directly and the result from Vc::sqrt
> loaded from memory. After fucomip the following flags are set:
> (gdb) p $eflags
> $6 = [ CF IF ]
>
> Obviously I expected ZF to be set. Here's the problem:
> st6 1.41421353816986083984375 (raw 0x3fffb504f30000000000)
> st7 1.4142135623730950487637880730318329 (raw 0x3fffb504f333f9de6484)
>
> Looking at the binary representation the single precision values are equal.
> Just st7 (the result from fsqrt) is not stored as single.
>
> So now I understand why it failed. Am I right in my understanding that this is
> a bug? According to the C++ code the comparison should not have returned false
> because std::sqrt returns a single precision value.
Isn't this http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=323 ?
We won't know until you give us a real test case, one that we can compile
and run.
Andrew.
