Running this piece of code while having the sse optimization turned on
(vcnet2003), something really strange happens I cannot explain. Without sse
it is giving me the right results.
float f = 0.8;
f *= UINT_MAX;
DWORD dw = (DWORD)f;
Basically the result in dw should be 0xcccccccc (or 0xcccccd00 because of
float's inaccuracy), but instead I get 0x80000000 for anything above f =
0.5!
Here is the same code with the assembly instructions inlined copied from the
debugger's view. According to the watch window, f still holds the right
value after f *= UINT_MAX, and only becomes wrong after the third line.
float f = 0.8;
movss xmm0,dword ptr [__real@3f4ccccd (102261C4h)]
movss dword ptr [f],xmm0
f *= UINT_MAX;
movss xmm0,dword ptr [f]
mulss xmm0,dword ptr [__real@4f800000 (102260ECh)]
movss dword ptr [f],xmm0
DWORD dw = (DWORD)f;
fld dword ptr [f]
fnstcw word ptr [ebp-10Ah]
movzx eax,word ptr [ebp-10Ah]
or ah,0Ch
mov dword ptr [ebp-110h],eax
fldcw word ptr [ebp-110h]
fistp dword ptr [ebp-114h]
fldcw word ptr [ebp-10Ah]
mov eax,dword ptr [ebp-114h]
mov dword ptr [dw],eax
1  4702 
Hm, no one has commented on this yet?
Anyway, I just noticed the problem is not there with the sse opt, but only
with sse2. The sse code seems to call __ftol2 which still works. So as it
looks, the current sse2 option in vc2k3 is quite useless and _dangerous_ if
someone wants to use floating point calculations in his program too.
DWORD dw = (DWORD)f;
sse:
fld dword ptr [f]
call @ILT+1375(__fto l2) (411564h)
mov dword ptr [dw],eax
sse2
fld dword ptr [f]
fnstcw word ptr [ebp-0DAh]
movzx eax,word ptr [ebp-0DAh]
or ah,0Ch
mov dword ptr [ebp-0E0h],eax
fldcw word ptr [ebp-0E0h]
fistp dword ptr [ebp-0E4h]
fldcw word ptr [ebp-0DAh]
mov eax,dword ptr [ebp-0E4h]
mov dword ptr [dw],eax
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