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Re: What is acceptable for -ffast-math? (Was: associative law in combine)

On Jul 30, 2001, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> I'm puzzled to see "optimization" used to designate a transformation
> applying dubious rules to transmute the meaning of a computation :-(

In what sense is this different from Fortran's rules on parentheses?
I'm just trying to bring in the same rule to C, given the additional
complexities brought in by the preprocessor mentioned by Linus.

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