Re: icc compiler

[Mag Gam]

Good to know!

Thanks


On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Mag Gam <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I was wondering if anyone compiled Octave with the Intel C/C++
>> compiler. I am planning to do this for my lab and just curious if
>> there are any tid bits you can share...
>>
>
> I build Octave with Intel C++ and Fortran regularly, and link Octave
> to ACML (I tried also Intel MKL).
> There's no significant magic involved, except that you should be
> careful about Intel's aggresive optimizations that can break the IEEE
> math semantics. I build with -mieee-fp to stay safe.
>
> Also, my Intel C++ 9.0 has a bug that I need to workaround manually,
> but I think it's fixed in a recent version.
>
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> RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
> computing expert & GNU Octave developer
> Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
> Prague, Czech Republic
> url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz
>