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Re: GCC beaten by ICC in stupid trig test!


Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

The C++ standard clearly says that re-association is permitted only if
the re-associated expression gives the same result as the original.
So A+B+C really is (A+B)+C.

In Ada, the rule is a little more liberal, the reassociation is allowed if the result is in the same model interval. In practice though, either criterion forbids the reassocation.


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