[GRASS5] GRASS testsuite issue
Sören Gebbert
soerengebbert at gmx.de
Fri Feb 10 16:01:55 EST 2006
Dear list,
while developing the new GRASS testsuite, i noticed some unexpected behavior.
I try to validate the generated output of grass modules with md5 checksum tests.
I check the binary files in the grass location (cell, fcell, topo, coor and other files ).
I was expecting the output of grass (raster, raster3d and vector) is equal on x86 machines,
but after some testing i recognized that the output differs.
If i create raster map's with r.mapcalc or r3.mapcalc and use sin() and cos(), the md5
checksums are differ between Linux AMD gcc-3.4.4 and Linux P4 gcc-4.0.3 systems.
The same with v.buffer. But the command "r.mapcalc test=10" produce's equal output.
How could this happen? Have the compiler, libraries (math?) or other software influence of the
data generation, or is this a feature of the gislib?
Maybe the optimize funciton of gcc (-On, SSE, mmx, 3dnow and stuff) produce this behavior?
I dont know, but i need help. If there is no way no avoid this behavior,
the md5 checksum test (an important feature) will not work :( .
A work-around may be: to check the output exported with the *.out.ascii modules?
What to do? Any help or suggestions?
Best regards
Soeren
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