[Users] Test case requiring strict floating point operation ordering

Barry Wardell barry.wardell at gmail.com
Wed May 13 04:38:59 CDT 2015


On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Bruno Giacomazzo <
bruno.giacomazzo at unitn.it> wrote:

> On 13 May 2015, at 11:17, Ian Hinder <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
>
> Allow the user to set CCTK_STRICT_MATH in the optionlist.  This would
> indicate that strict ordering of floating point operations, and IEEE
> compliance, is required in this build.  This could potentially then be used
> to select compiler optimisation settings automatically.  We could then
> introduce additional Cactus tests, only enabled when CCTK_STRICT_MATH was
> set, which checked that certain operations give exactly the correct results.
>
>
> I like this idea.
>

Assuming this is too big a change so close to the release, would it be a
good idea to disable the test for now and then implement this after the
release?
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