Thread overview
[Issue 7546] New: 64-bit floating-point issue with negative zero: -0.0 == 0.0 is false.
Feb 19, 2012
kennytm@gmail.com
Feb 19, 2012
kennytm@gmail.com
February 19, 2012
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7546

           Summary: 64-bit floating-point issue with negative zero: -0.0
                    == 0.0 is false.
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: x86_64
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: wrong-code
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody@puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: kennytm@gmail.com


--- Comment #0 from kennytm@gmail.com 2012-02-19 11:15:03 PST ---
Test case:

----------------------
void main()
{
    auto p = -0.0;
    assert(p == 0);
}
----------------------

Running the program with -m64 caused an Assertion failure. (This works in
32-bit.)

An equivalent test which also fails in 64-bit:

----------------------
void main()
{
    double p = -0.0;
    assert(p == -0.0);
}
----------------------

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--- Comment #1 from kennytm@gmail.com 2012-02-19 11:38:41 PST ---
The problem is that, when comparing with 0.0 or -0.0, the backend will generate an integer 'cmp' instruction, but -0.0 has a different bit pattern than 0.0, so the equality will fail.

     cmp    QWORD PTR [rbp-0x8],0x0
     je     ...

The code works if the type is 'float' because it uses an 'add eax, eax' trick make both 0.0f and -0.0f set the ZF flag.

This code also work if the type if 'real' because it uses x87.

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--- Comment #2 from bearophile_hugs@eml.cc 2012-02-19 12:05:22 PST ---
I think 0.0 == -0.0, but 0.0 !is -0.0.

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--- Comment #3 from github-bugzilla@puremagic.com 2012-05-11 19:02:54 PDT ---
Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/a8ffc8ab60aa3e1ae965e5764f0900e14a0881c1
Fix issue 7546 64-bit floating-point issue with negative zero: -0.0 == 0.0 is
false

Just duplicate the code for float == float.

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