eric_bac...@agilent wrote:
>
> 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!
Thanks for the STC. The difference between -ffast-math and -fno-fast-math
is that the fast version calls the _f_tan newlib fast math function rather
than tan. I think this is likely to be a calling-convention issue but I'm
still debugging it.
cheers,
DaveK
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