Spurious test in gfortran.fortran-torture/execute/intrinsic_mod_ulo.f90
Tobias Schlüter
tobias.schlueter@physik.uni-muenchen.de
Mon Nov 7 21:05:00 GMT 2005
Paul Thomas wrote:
> Both rewrites of MOD that I am preparing do better than the existing,
> from x/y ~ 10**17 up to 10**19. Beyond this, the fast one gives wild
> values, like the present function, whereas the "correct" one is about
> 20% slower.
>
> Which version would folk like to see?
Garbage in, garbage out? Otherwise, conditionalizing on -ffast-math seems
appropriate, since even though you're not providing a "correct" result in the
slow case, it's at least predictable.
- Tobi
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