Re: [Help-gsl] Make check fails

[Michael Braun]

Brian:

I switched the -fast flag to -O2, and it worked.  Is this possibly a  
bug in GCC or GSL, or is it just life with optimized code?

Michael



On May 26, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Brian Gough wrote:

> At Sun, 24 May 2009 16:04:07 -0400,
> Michael Braun wrote:
> > FAIL: random-libc5, ratio of int to double (1.45346 observed vs
> > 1.66301 expected) [107]
> > FAIL: test
> >
> > So I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug (or something I'm doing
> > wrong).  Any ideas?
>
> Do you see the same failure if the library is compiled without
> optimisation (or with a lower level, e.g. the standard -O2)?  Those
> tests certainly pass on other 64 bit platforms so I would suspect a
> problem with the optimisation.
>
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> Brian Gough
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