I need clarifications concerning fenv_access[Forums] Hello,It seems that the Intel compiler has implemented the enclosing compound statement as scope for the pragma fenv_access, whereas Visual C++ only allows the pragma in the global or a namespace scope.Can...
Commutativity of Floating Point Arithmetic[Forums] That FP arithmetic can be tricky in multi-threaded environment is well known. However, I am getting strange results depending on whether I use -O2 optimization or not, even though the code itself is serial....
Atomic floats, is this implementation safe?[Forums] I made an atomic float, and it's probably not blazingly fast (that's ok), but its faster than wrapping a lock around a float, and it works, but I'm not sure if this is because of my good luck, or if this...
Parallelization and Floating Point Numbers[Knowledgebase] Sometimes we forget that not all numbers are the same. This becomes very apparent in dealing with floating point numbers in parallel computing. This article addresses a common challenge parallel programmers...
