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Re: j0_downward failures on i686 with gcc 6.


On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> Joseph,
> 
> On i686 using GCC 6.0 I see some additional +1 ULP changes in j0.
> 
> Does this seem like normal compiler-induced changed in precision?

Yes - on i686, different register allocation choices affecting which 
intermediate values are stored in excess precision.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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