[fpc-pascal] Order of Precedence: FPC/Delphi vs Java

[mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk]

Hi Florian,

Thanks for your reply. Initially I had all the data types as Double in 
the Object Pascal example. I then thought that maybe there is some auto 
data-type conversion, and tried storing the result in a Extended type 
instead. It made no difference.

 From your example, the only time there is a difference is when the 
-Cfsse2 is specified. What exactly does that do, because with or without 
that, the results vary.

I'm running 64-bit Windows 10 here, but using FPC 3.0.4 32-bit compiler. 
In Delphi I was using XE3 32-bit compiler as well.

See here... I changed all the data types to Double before I did this 
test:

graeme.geldenhuys at UKCM-L500737 C:\devel\tests\OperatorPrecedence
> fpc -Criot -Cfsse3 TestOperatorPrecedence.pas
Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.2 [2017/02/13] for i386
Copyright (c) 1993-2017 by Florian Klaempfl and others
Target OS: Win32 for i386
Compiling TestOperatorPrecedence.pas
TestOperatorPrecedence.pas(10,3) Note: Local variable "a" is assigned 
but never used
Linking TestOperatorPrecedence.exe
36 lines compiled, 0.1 sec, 35312 bytes code, 2436 bytes data
1 note(s) issued

graeme.geldenhuys at UKCM-L500737 C:\devel\tests\OperatorPrecedence
> TestOperatorPrecedence.exe
  5.1009900000000001E+004
  5.1009900000000001E+004
  5.1009900000000001E+004
---
  0.0000000000000000E+000
  0.0000000000000000E+000
  0.0000000000000000E+000
  0.0000000000000000E+000
  0.0000000000000000E+000



Perfect, the result I expected. Now the same code, but compiled without 
-Cfsse2 and the results change.


graeme.geldenhuys at UKCM-L500737 C:\devel\tests\OperatorPrecedence
> fpc -Criot TestOperatorPrecedence.pas
Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.2 [2017/02/13] for i386
Copyright (c) 1993-2017 by Florian Klaempfl and others
Target OS: Win32 for i386
Compiling TestOperatorPrecedence.pas
TestOperatorPrecedence.pas(10,3) Note: Local variable "a" is assigned 
but never used
Linking TestOperatorPrecedence.exe
36 lines compiled, 0.1 sec, 35232 bytes code, 2436 bytes data
1 note(s) issued

graeme.geldenhuys at UKCM-L500737 C:\devel\tests\OperatorPrecedence
> TestOperatorPrecedence.exe
  5.1009900000000001E+004
  5.1009900000000001E+004
  5.1009900000000001E+004
---
-3.5527136788005009E-015
-3.5527136788005009E-015
-3.5527136788005009E-015
  0.0000000000000000E+000
  0.0000000000000000E+000


Sorry, but this makes no sense to me.

Regards,
   Graeme


On 2018-10-03 10:16, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 03.10.2018 um 10:40 schrieb mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk:
>> I have this simple little test. My expected answer for all the 
>> calculations are 0 (zero), but both FPC and Delphi give
>> different results. Java is the only one that seems consistent 
>> regarding the results.
> 
> Compile/run on the same architecture, use the same data types (and not
> extended for Object Pascal and double for Java).