[Insight-developers] tests are running for ever in release mode with icc 9.1.044 on linux

[Brad King]

Gaetan Lehmann wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:44:38 +0100, Gaetan Lehmann 
> <gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Some tests are running for ever in release mode with icc 9.1.044 on 
>> linux.
>> I haven't try in Debug mode, but it looks a lot like the problems with 
>> optimization we had some time ago with gcc.
>>
> 
> It works nice with:
> 
>   SET_SOURCE_FILES_PROPERTIES(
>           blas/slamch.c
>           blas/dlamch.c
>           PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS -O0
>           )
> 
> in Utilities/vxl/v3p/netlib/CMakeLists.txt. I have put that whitout test 
> for the compiler, so I guess it can be done nicer :-)
> A submission to the dashboard is on the way, thing that can't have been 
> done before that change, because the ctest was running for more than a day.
> 
> Can someone with a better knowledge than me about how to do that, and 
> still with a write access to cvs, fix that before the release ?

The -ffloat-store option is added for building these files on GCC to 
avoid some problems with not rounding to the expected precision.  The 
equivalent flag on Intel appears to be:

icc-8.x: -fp_port
icc-9.0: -fp-port
icc-9.1: -fp-port

-Brad