[Haskell-cafe] Possible floating point bug in GHC?

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Ouch, what a waste of time on my side :-(
This bugfix is not mentioned in the "notable bug fixes"
here<http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.2/html/users_guide/release-6-10-2.html>


Since this is such a severe bug, I would recommend listing it :)

Anyway, I have a very small repro test case now. Will certainly test this
with GHC 6.10.2.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:10:17PM +0200, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
> > I tried both precise and fast, but that did not help. Compiling to SSE2
> > fixed it, since that does not use a floating point stack I guess.
>
> You didn't say what version of GHC you are using, but it sounds like
> this might already be fixed in 6.10.2 by:
>
> Tue Nov 11 12:56:19 GMT 2008  Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>
>  * Fix to i386_insert_ffrees (#2724, #1944)
>  The i386 native code generator has to arrange that the FPU stack is
>  clear on exit from any function that uses the FPU.  Unfortunately it
>  was getting this wrong (and has been ever since this code was written,
>  I think): it was looking for basic blocks that used the FPU and adding
>  the code to clear the FPU stack on any non-local exit from the block.
>  In fact it should be doing this on a whole-function basis, rather than
>  individual basic blocks.
>
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
>
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