Re: [boost] [endian] Testing floating point interoperability

Subject: Re: [boost] [endian] Testing floating point interoperability
From: Stephan T. Lavavej (stl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-03-20 11:15:11

[Beman Dawes]
> An exhaustive return-by-value round-trip test of all 4 billion
> possible bit patterns for float (but not double) has been run on
> Windows with the GCC and Microsoft compilers.
> For both compilers in release mode, and for GCC in debug mode, all bit
> patterns pass.
> But for Microsoft in debug mode, certain bit patterns do not
> round-trip correctly. For example, 7f810000 becomes 7fc10000. (Those
> are little endian representations).

I'll file a bug if you can give me a self-contained repro. Just one offending bit pattern is fine. Ideally, a repro that doesn't drag in Boost would be the easiest for the compiler team to investigate (i.e. if you can reduce it all the way down to standalone functions).

STL