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Re: -ffast-math and floating point reordering
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:03:39AM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Joe Buck wrote:
>
> > Ada: the 1983 LRM seems to say that the rule is the same as for C++:
> >
> > "... for a sequence of operators of the same precedence level, the
> > operators are associated in textual order from left to right;
> > parentheses can be used to impose specific associations"
>
> First, that is the wrong document, describing a language that has been
> obsolete for a decade, please reference the Ada 95 document :-)
Thanks the correction; I've generally found that the fastest way to get
the right answer on the net is to confidently assert the answer you
believe to be right; those who know will immediately correct you, while if
you just ask, often no answers arrive. All it requires is a willingness
to look bad on occasion.
> Secondly, this statement is talking about the evaluation structure. The
> rule about reassociation is else where (and is as I stated earlier, you
> are allowed to reassociate the the result is in the same model interval)
What is "model interval"?