Dear Sirs,
you see me a kind of desperate. I wrote my own a small piece of
software in C, calculating the orbit and position of astronomical
objects, astroids, in a heliocentric coordinate system from Keplerian
orbital elements. So far. The software calculates the set of points of
an ellipse based upon ephemeridal datas taken from the Minor Planet
Cataloge. Again, so far, everything all right. The set of points of an
orbit is all right and correct. But when it comes to positions at a
specific time, then I loose hair!
Compiling this piece of software with FreeBSD's gcc (V4.2) and clang
(clang devel) on my private and lab's FreeBSD boxes (both most recent
FreeBSD 8.1/amd64), this program does well, the calculated orbital
positions are very close to professional applications or observational
checks. But when compiling the sources with gcc44 or gcc45 (same source,
same CFLAG setting, mostly no CFLAGS set), then there is a great
discrepancy. Sometimes when plotting positions, the results plotted
seconds before differs from the most recent. The ellipses are allways
correct, but the position of a single point at a specific time isn't
correct.
I use the GNU autotools to build the package.
I suspekt miscompilations in memory alloction or in some time- or
mathematical functions like sin, cos.
before I digg deeper I'd like to ask the community for some hints how to
hunt down such a problem.
regards,
Oliver
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