Hello fellow cygwinners,
I'm seeing incorrect behavior when I use the "-ffast-math" option to gcc on
cygwin. Here is a Short Test Case:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
int main(void)
{
double d1 = 0.0;
double d2 = 0.0;
d1 = tan(d1);
d2 = tan(d2);
(void) printf("d1 = %lg, expecting 0 (or -0)\n", d1);
(void) printf("d2 = %lg, expecting 0 (or -0)\n", d2);
return 0;
}
Compile this with "gcc -ffast-math testprog.c -o testprog", then run
"./testprog". Correct output would be:
d1 = 0, expecting 0 (or -0)
d2 = 0, expecting 0 (or -0)
Some time ago, on cygwin 1.5 and presumably with an older version of gcc, this
code (well, actually, a more complicated version of this in a library we use)
worked correctly. It worked correctly both with and without "-mno-cygwin", and
both with and without -ffast-math.
Today, on cygwin 1.7, I get this output:
d1 = -0, expecting 0 (or -0)
d2 = nan, expecting 0 (or -0)
I get this output from both gcc-3 (which is 3.4.4) and from gcc-4 (which is
4.3.4), when -ffast-math is used. If I remove -ffast-math, I get the expected
output of 0 for both d1 and d2. If I compile with -mno-cygwin on gcc-3, either
with or without -ffast-math, I get the expected output of 0 for both d1 and d2.
So the problem seems to be limited to -ffast-math, and to the cygwin
(non-mingw32) platform, and perhaps to relatively recent versions of gcc.
My completely uninformed guess is that this is a cygwin-specific defect in gcc.
But I really don't know.
Any ideas how I should deal with this would be helpful!
--
Eric
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