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cygwin-b20 gcc: "A - floor(A)" returns a negative value
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- Subject: cygwin-b20 gcc: "A - floor(A)" returns a negative value
- From: "Peter Kabal" <Kabal at ece dot mcgill dot ca>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 21:38:51 -0500
Switching from cygwin-b19 to cygwin-b20 caused a C-routine to give
incorrect results. This was traced to a calculation (in double) of
"A - float(A)" which returns a negative value. By definition it should
always be positive. A short test program which demonstrates this
problem is included. If the program is further simplified, the problem
goes away. To exercise the bug, the program must be compiled with
optimization level -O3.
% gcc -O3 tfloor.c -o tfloor
% ./tfloor
AV = 20, AV - floor(AV) = -1.11022e-15
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#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int
main (argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
double AV;
AV = 0.05;
AV = 1.0 / (AV - floor (AV));
printf ("AV = %g, AV - floor(AV) = %g\n", AV, AV - floor(AV));
return 0;
};
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Peter Kabal kabal@ECE.McGill.CA
Dept. Electrical & Computer Engineering
McGill University
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