Re: [LAD] Is -ffast-math safe for audio?

From: Will J Godfrey <WillGodfrey@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Nov 22 2018 - 21:58:57 EET

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 19:28:58 +0100
David Runge <dave@sleepmap.de> wrote:

>On 2018-11-22 18:57:15 (+0100), Hermann Meyer wrote:
>> In the guitarix project we've disabled  -ffast-math several years ago,
>> when I remember right it was at gcc3, as it could lead to different
>> un-reproduciable calculations. Last option I've disabled on gcc8 now,
>> is -ffinite-math-only, this one leads to nan's and inf's in several
>> cases, which been as well not reproducible.
>Rabbit hole stuff! SuperCollider came to a similar conclusion:
>https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/issues/4116

Thanks a lot people. I kept thinking I was doing something wrong!

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