[Vm-dev] Portability problems: compiler flags
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sun Apr 10 19:08:09 UTC 2011
On 4/10/2011 18:35, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> Sorry for arriving late to the thread. I have a simiar problem now
> trying to compile Cog in a Windows box with MinGW.
>
> The problem is described in another thread:
> http://forum.world.st/Cannot-generate-VM-in-Windows-with-CMake-and-Git-tp3434566p3434566.html
>
> So...if we remove "-mno-fused-madd" from windows confs like
> CogMsWindowsConfig, then Corquet wouldn't behave correctly ? but if
> we keep them, it is difficult to compile in some platforms. So...I
> wonder, I am the only one trying to compile this on Windows? Who do
> the Croquet guys do to compile with this flag in Windows?
gcc 3.x accepts -mno-fused-madd fine.
Cheers,
- Andreas
>
> Thanks
>
> Mariano
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Nicolas Cellier
> <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
> <mailto:nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
> 2011/1/25 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de
> <mailto:andreas.raab at gmx.de>>:
> >
> > On 1/25/2011 11:38 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Squeak uses highly unportable flag "-mno-fused-madd".
> >>> It isn't present in many systems, even those using GCC,
> >>> since many systems use older compilers.
> >>>
> >>> Also, why do you build fdlibm? It is old stuff that works not
> so well,
> >>> we have better libm. Is there a way to use our libm?
> >>>
> >> I asked same question few weeks ago.
> >> Check mailing list archive for discussion.
> >> In short: differrent libm implementations work differently and some
> >> have bad support of IEEE standard.
> >
> > Actually, that's not quite the point. The issue is that Croquet
> requires
> > bit-identical computations including floating point. For FPU
> computations,
> > the use of -mno-fused-madd avoids the use of the fused multiply-add
> > operation by compilers which support it which would generate
> different
> > results from compilers not using fused madd.
> >
> > The usage of fdlibm is similar. As Nicolas has pointed out
> elsewhere, fdlibm
> > is in some cases actually inferior of the platform libms (one
> might say
> > outright broken) but the requirement for the usage in Croquet
> isn't really
> > whether it's "correct" or "good". The requirement is
> bit-identical results
> > across all platforms. The results can be wrong as long as they are
> > consistently wrong. But they mustn't be different.
> >
>
> Yes, I was disappointed by exp(1), but fdlibm sin(pi+epsilon) is far
> far superior to i86 hardwired answer (i86 approximation of pi is well
> known to be poor).
>
> Nicolas
>
> > Having said that, for your regular Squeak VM (i.e., not requiring
> > bit-identical floating point results) there really isn't a
> requirement to
> > use either -mno-fused-madd or fdlibm.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Andreas
> >
>
>
>
>
> --
> Mariano
> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>
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