Re: -ffloat-store behavior (Re: Susprising behavior of gcc on x86 (-m32))

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On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 09/08/2015 01:40 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> FYI,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>> That's not the only option. You could compile one file with GCC and
>>>>> all others with Clang and see if you can reproduce it. Repeat for each
>>>>> file, which will narrow down the file where the problem occurs. Then
>>>>> you can try splitting that file into smaller pieces, with one function
>>>>> per file, and repeat the process. That would tell you which function
>>>>> or functions get miscompiled by GCC.
>>>>
>>>> Ok so if I compile eveything with gcc and then only `tcd.c` using
>>>> clang, then everything works as expected (no symptoms).
>>>> ref: https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/blob/master/src/lib/openjp2/tcd.c
>>>>
>>>> I'll repeat your approach to find the culprit function.
>>>
>>> And the culprit function is `opj_tcd_makelayer`:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/blob/master/src/lib/openjp2/tcd.c#L218
>>>
>>> Other than the `if (dd / dr >= thresh)` I do not see anything
>>> obviously suspicious.
>>
>> I see floating point, despite your earlier denial.  :-)
>
> lol. Sorry about that :(
>
>> Libopenjpeg has a bad reputation for messing with the floating-
>> point state.  Please make sure the library is not linked with
>> -ffast-math.
>>
>> Beyond that, a few printf()s and "diff" should find the problem.
>
> So here what seems to be working for me, replace:
>
> if (dd / dr >= thresh)
>
> with:
>
> double div; /* OPJ_FLOAT64 */
> div = dd / dr;
> if (div >= thresh)
>
> However reading the documentation of gcc:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-5.2.0/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#index-ffloat-store-1074
>
> It appears that -ffloat-store is not activated by default (I did check
> that using also the output of `gcc -Q -v`).
>
> So could someone please let me know why `gcc -m32` (no other option!)
> produce different behavior (=removes excess precision if my
> understanding is correct) in the two above cases ?

Ok, I think I understand now. -O0 did produce code that is compatible
with -ffloat-store. However I am still required to use -ffloat-store
(explicitly) for any other optimization (at least required with -O2 in
my case).

Sorry for the noise,



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