Hi All,

Update: Now have a working copy SVN revision 1353 compiler to use. The 
uint64 multiplication problem mentioned seems to have gone away now. 
Will report if I have any further trouble.

Cheers,

-- 
Matt.


Matthew Kille wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm seeing some problems with 64-bit integer multiplication when using 
> the optimiser. Can somebody confirm whether there are any known problems?
> 
> I have created a minimal test program to hopefully demonstrate the 
> issue, (see attached). The program does the same multiply twice; first 
> time to show the result we are expecting, and the second time using a 
> little extra code to force the optimiser into having to do some 
> non-trivial work.
> 
> The output is written to a file in the root. The results should clearly 
> be the same each case, but with optimisation enabled the results are as 
> follows:
> 
> a = 1000
> b = 4294967295
> a * b = 4294967295000
> 
> a = 1000
> b = 4294967295
> a * b = 18446744073709550616
> 
> (0x3e7fffffc18 compared to 0xfffffffffffffc18).
> 
> Looks like the most significant word is being miscalculated. With 
> optimisation switched off -O0 or a different value for 'b' the second 
> answer is correct, matching the first.
> 
> I'm using the 0.51 release. I haven't been able to test with 0.55 (no 
> Cygwin release) and the latest SVN sources have trouble building.
> 
> $ arm-wince-mingw32ce-gcc -v
> Using built-in specs.
> Target: arm-wince-mingw32ce
> Configured with: /home/pedro/cegcc/0.51/src/gcc/configure --with-gcc 
> --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --target=arm-wince-mingw32ce 
> --prefix=/opt/mingw32ce --enable-threads=win32 --disable-nls 
> --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-win32-registry --disable-multilib 
> --disable-interwork --without-newlib --enable-checking --with-headers
> Thread model: win32
> gcc version 4.1.0
> 
> I would be pleased for any guidance on this matter and indeed whether 
> others experience the same thing.
> 
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