Re: Alpha -mieee Patch

[Kelley Cook <kcook34 at ford dot com>]

I have no authority to comment on the validity of the patch itself, 
however if it were to be approved, I would recommend changing the 
description in

...
> --- gcc/gcc/config/alpha/alpha.h.orig	2003-07-14 14:10:01.000000000 -0400
> +++ gcc/gcc/config/alpha/alpha.h	2003-07-14 14:12:55.000000000 -0400
> @@ -294,6 +294,8 @@
>       N_("Request IEEE-conformant math library routines (OSF/1)")},	\
>      {"ieee", MASK_IEEE|MASK_IEEE_CONFORMANT,				\
>       N_("Emit IEEE-conformant code, without inexact exceptions")},	\
> +    {"no-ieee", -(MASK_IEEE|MASK_IEEE_CONFORMANT),			\
> +     N_("Don't emit IEEE-conformant code (reverse -mieee)")},		\
>      {"ieee-with-inexact", MASK_IEEE_WITH_INEXACT|MASK_IEEE_CONFORMANT,	\
>       N_("Emit IEEE-conformant code, with inexact exceptions")},		\
>      {"build-constants", MASK_BUILD_CONSTANTS,				\

to simply "Allow IEEE-nonconformant code" since in many instances the 
code the compiler outputs with "-mno-ieee" will still be completely IEEE 
conformant.

Using "-mno-ieee" would, of course, just remove that guarantee.

In addition I would move that option below "-mieee-with-inexact".

Kelley Cook