java.lang.StrictMath

Thu Feb 14 23:23:00 GMT 2002

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>"Eric" == Eric Blake <ebb9@email.byu.edu> writes:
>>>>>>>>Eric> StrictMath is required to be implemented in pure Java
>>How curious.
>BTW, fdlibm is fine to use. We already use it in libgcj.
>>Thanks for doing this. Now all we have to do is implement strictfp in
>gcj :-)
>
Do you have any examples of how GCC is *not* strictfp compliant (at 
least on common platforms)? My understanding is that, by default, it 
tries to be strictly IEEE 754. On x86 it will store values to memory and 
make a function call to do FP arithmetic, unless -ffast-math is given 
which allows it to do inline math using (the 80-bit x87) FP registers.
So, unless I misunderstand something and there is more to it, we should 
make -ffast-math the default for Java except where strictfp is encountered.
regards
Bryce