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Re: alpha IEEE floating-point patch
- To: Brad Lucier <lucier at math dot purdue dot edu>
- Subject: Re: alpha IEEE floating-point patch
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:43:49 -0700
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, staff at math dot purdue dot edu, hosking at cs dot purdue dot edu
- References: <199908251554.KAA15740@polya.math.purdue.edu>
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 10:54:51AM -0500, Brad Lucier wrote:
> Here are two suggested patches for gcc against 2.95.1.
This patch will not be applied to the 2.95 branch, as it
is not a critical bug fix.
> The first eliminates the generation of trapb instructions if the processor
> is ev6.
This is already done on mainline.
> The second adds an option -mieee-exceptions to the alpha port.
I will entertain a general switch for this, but I will not add such a
thing to the Alpha back end. I also think -mieee-exceptions is a bad
name, being completely undescriptive.
Something like -fno-math-errno would be acceptible.
r~