Re: RFH: testers for ieee test

2008-03-27 Thread Joern Rennecke
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 04:27:32PM +0100, Geert Bosch wrote: > >known to get these calculations wrong. Could someone with a fully > >ieee compliant FPU try this test? > > Just use -mfpmath=sse -msse2 to force use of SSE instructions > for double precision math. Should be the default nowadays, IMO

Re: RFH: testers for ieee test

2008-03-27 Thread Geert Bosch
On Mar 27, 2008, at 02:58, Joern Rennecke wrote: I'm trying to write a test to check I get all the subnormal corner cases for ieee-754 double precision floating point division right. The usual thing to do with a new test is to try it on a known good platform. Unfortunately, the x86 processor

Re: RFH: testers for ieee test

2008-03-27 Thread Derek M Jones
Joern , You could try using softfloat: http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Applications Standards Conformance Testinghttp://www.knosof.co.

RFH: testers for ieee test

2008-03-26 Thread Joern Rennecke
I'm trying to write a test to check I get all the subnormal corner cases for ieee-754 double precision floating point division right. The usual thing to do with a new test is to try it on a known good platform. Unfortunately, the x86 processor of my workstation is actually known to get these calcu