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Re: [PATCH] Optimize x*x*x*x*x*x using 3 multiplications.
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Last time this topic came up, I thought we had talked about the
> possibility of having a flag on the tree nodes that would tell the
> back end what to do. Maybe I'm misremembering though.
C99 needs multiple such flags for the standard pragmas (FP_CONTRACT,
FENV_ACCESS, CX_LIMITED_RANGE). Some flags may need to be carried down to
the RTL level.
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