I'm not sure what's going on (seems like maybe a fast but error prone floating point rounding), but comparing the optimization flags enabled between -O0 and -O2 might help shed some light on it.

You can get the explicit optimization flags enabled for your compiler via:
 g++ -Q -O2 --help=optimizers
 g++ -Q -O0 --help=optimizers

Regards,
Nate

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Tim van Erven via Boost-users <boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Dear all,

I am trying to understand why I am getting different numerical results with the interval library depending on the optimization level of the compiler.

I am attaching the smallest example I have been able to create:

# On my Mac laptop
Apple LLVM version 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.39.2)
boost 1.66 (installed via homebrew)
$ g++ foo.cpp -o foo
$ ./foo
third1 = 0.3333333333333333148296162562473909929394721984863281250000000000
third2 = 0.3333333333333333148296162562473909929394721984863281250000000000
v1 = (0.9999999999999998889776975374843459576368331909179687500000000000,1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
v2 = (0.9999999999999998889776975374843459576368331909179687500000000000,1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)

$ g++ -O2 foo.cpp -o foo
$ ./foo
third1 = 0.3333333333333333148296162562473909929394721984863281250000000000
third2 = 0.3333333333333333148296162562473909929394721984863281250000000000
v1 = (1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000,1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
v2 = (1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000,1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)

I would expect to get the same output in both cases, but the lower end-points are different in the second case, and seem wrong to me since third2 * 3.0 < 1.0.

# On my Linux machine the effect is different:
gcc version 5.4.0 20160609
boost 1.58 on Ubuntu 16.04.9

$ g++ foo.cpp -o foo
$ ./foo
third1 = 0.3333333333333333148296162562473909929394721984863281250000000000
third2 = 0.3333333333333333148296162562473909929394721984863281250000000000
v1 = (0.9999999999999998889776975374843459576368331909179687500000000000,1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
v2 = (0.9999999999999998889776975374843459576368331909179687500000000000,1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)

$ g++ -O2 foo.cpp -o foo
$ ./foo
third1 = 0.3333333333333333148296162562473909929394721984863281250000000000
third2 = 0.3333333333333333148296162562473909929394721984863281250000000000
v1 = (0.9999999999999998889776975374843459576368331909179687500000000000,1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
v2 = (1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000,1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)

Can anyone explain what is going on?

Thanks in advance,

Tim

-- 
Tim van Erven <tim@timvanerven.nl>
www.timvanerven.nl

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