Rounding differences between 1.8 and 1.7 (including -Xint mode).
Vladimir Kozlov
vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com
Fri Jul 20 15:16:47 PDT 2012
Dawid,
It would be nice if you can provide a test case for us. What jdk8 build you are
using?
We recently changed implementation of exp() and pow() in VM on x86 from C code
to use FPU instructions. It created a bugs tail. The latest bug 7177917 was
fixed in jdk8b48.
Thanks,
Vladimir
Dawid Weiss wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> We observe test regressions on fairly complex computational code
> resulting from small differences in double roundings. They show up
> when executed with latest 1.8 snapshot (compared to 1.7 and 1.6). Also
> applies when run in interpreted mode (-Xint).
>
> I was wondering if this is something to be expected? Thanks,
>
> Dawid
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