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Re: GCC 4.1.0 Released

On 2006-03-01 14:51:45 -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> Here are diffs of "-O2 -mtune=nocona -ffast-math" vs
> "-O2 -mtune=generic -ffast-math" on Nocona:
[...]

Optimization is much less important than correct results. From
this point of view, I don't think that using an option known to
produce incorrect results (-ffast-math) is a good idea to decide
whether a patch should be applied or not (without mentioning the
other reasons given in the thread...).

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