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Re: GCC floating point usage

From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
To: zack at codesourcery dot com
Cc: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com, dje at watson dot ibm dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:07:24 -0800
Subject: Re: GCC floating point usage
References: <200302261546.h1QFkuH03204@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> <871y1v55id.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>

> From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:14:02 -0800

> I'd like to remind everyone that the patch Mike refers to deals with a
> slightly different situation, viz. where use of floating point in an
> unanticipated context causes a correctness failure, not just a
> performance penalty.

These are two different objectives, and shouldn't necessarily be dealt
with in the same patch or code path.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>

References:
- Re: GCC floating point usage
  - From: Richard Earnshaw
- Re: GCC floating point usage
  - From: Zack Weinberg

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