GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test!

Segher Boessenkool segher@kernel.crashing.org
Mon Mar 15 14:47:00 GMT 2004


> Note that it has been reported in the past the the x86 native
> instruction fsin yields incorrect results for values outside or a
> certain interval (I can't remember which exactly).
>

+/- 2**63, on i387.  Original pentium is supposed to be 1 ulp
accurate for all valid inputs (no idea if it actually is).

Don't know for other chips.


Segher



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