GCC beaten by ICC in stupid trig test!

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> Roger Sayle writes:

Roger> So my next experiment was to search the internet to see if anyone had
Roger> ever complained about the floating point accuracy of Intel's icc
Roger> compilers.  After an hour or two, I was unable to find a single report;
Roger> SPECcpu2000's fp self-tests all pass, POV-ray images are bit for bit
Roger> identical, etc...

	What about the more general question of what type of customer uses
ICC versus other compilers?  Are numericists using ICC?  Is GCC implicitly
changing strategy with this proposal?

David