Avoiding floating point problems on Pentium Xeon platform w/ GCC 3.2

John Love-Jensen eljay@adobe.com
Mon Jun 9 12:51:00 GMT 2003


Hi Erik,

That's the nature of floating point operations.

You can enable IEEE 754 compliance on both platforms, that may help.  GCC
has a compiler switch (as do many compilers).

Otherwise, the programmer has to take meticulous care to insure uniform
results.  That is to say, review/rework all source code manually -- very
painful.

Been there, done that, good luck.

Sincerely,
--Eljay



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