Problems with double division when using gcc's -ffast-math option

[synthetix]

I am getting incorrect results with division when using -ffast-math. Here is what I have to work with:

int64_t duration;
int64_t time_units;
double frame_rate;
int64_t frame_count;

//get frame count
frame_count = ((double)duration/(double)time_units) * (double)frame_rate;

This works great as long as -ffast-math isn't enabled.

Is there another way I can calculate frame_count that uses only integers? Perhaps multiplying everything by 1000 (to increase precision) and then do the calculations using integers?

[whiteflags]

-ffast-math enables this...

-freciprocal-math
Allow the reciprocal of a value to be used instead of dividing by the value if this enables optimizations. For example x / y can be replaced with x * (1/y) which is useful if (1/y) is subject to common subexpression elimination. Note that this loses precision and increases the number of flops operating on the value.

If the answers are wrong because of the loss in precision, you need to just leave it off.

[synthetix]

If the answers are wrong because of the loss in precision, you need to just leave it off.

Thanks. I will leave it off. I just tried compiling without it, and it didn't make much of a difference in performance. It did when I had complex loops, but I replaced them with other code a while back so it looks like I don't need it. Good.