GCC options and floating-point correctness (benchmarks)

[Joe Buck]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:36:14PM -0500, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> [ paranoia results ]

> Given that GCC exhibits FAILURES and DEFECTS, even under the best of 
> circumstances, suggests that ICC may have a leg up when it comes to this 
> benchmark.

But there's a problem.  People have posted trivial programs where icc
majorly violates IEEE rules.  Could Intel be tuning specifically to work
well on paranoia, but take impermissible shortcuts elsewhere?