Re: Interfacing Ada with C

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:46:10 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

> Ada novice <posts@gmx.us> writes:
>> On Jul 26, 1:21�am, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> wrote:

>>>(b) the results
>>> are the same with GNAT GPL 2010 and GCC 4.5.0, (c) the output looks good
>>> (from your inputs) ..
>>>
>>> � �$ ./test_zgeev
>>> � � 2.00000000000000E+00 �4.00000000000000E+00
>>> � � 2.00000000000000E+00 -4.00000000000000E+00
>>> � � 9.99999999999996E-01 �2.07319734774360E-16
>>
>>
>> I have Win XP and gcc (GCC) 4.3.6 20100603 for GNAT GPL 2010
>> (20100603). I get slightly different output:
>>
>>  1.99999999999999E+00  3.99999999999999E+00
>>  2.00000000000000E+00 -4.00000000000000E+00
>>  1.00000000000000E+00 -3.45920620709768E-16
>>
>> Your GCC version is more recent than mine. Maybe this is causing the
>> discrepancies or maybe it's because of your different OS. Did you
>> install your GCC separately? I got mine bundled with the GNAT GPL
>> 2010.
> 
> Mine was part of GNAT GPL 2010, but on Mac OS X LAPACK and BLAS come
> with the OS; I suspect that on Windows they don't.

It makes little sense to compare decimal representations, which aren't
exact on most machines. Then before comparing any results, they should be
rounded to the accuracy of the given method.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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