I tried to run the attached test case on IA64 native and interpreted. The bad news is that both give totally different results:
Native: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gcj-4.0 DoubleTest.java -o doubleTest --main=DoubleTest -g [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./doubleTest 5.0E-324 Interpreted: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gij-4.0 DoubleTest 8.881784197001252E-16 The interpreted case is wrong. This seems to be a bug in fdlibm as jamvm/classpath has the same bug. This bug only happens on IA64 as far as I know. E.g. it makes building GNU classpath fail with ecj. I wonder what GCJ does that makes this work in the native case ... -- Summary: Wrong parsing of doubles when interpreted Product: gcc Version: 4.0.3 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: libgcj AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: konqueror at gmx dot de GCC build triplet: ia64-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: ia64-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: ia64-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26483