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Re: RFA: Tweak documentation of fma
- From: Richard Sandiford <richard dot sandiford at arm dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:41:24 +0000
- Subject: Re: RFA: Tweak documentation of fma
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Ping.
Richard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@arm.com> writes:
> The original reason for this was to fix the missing space before "@var{z}".
> "Do a combined multiply ... and then" didn't sound quite right though:
> "and then" implies a separate step and so feels like a contradiction
> of "combined".
>
> Tested with "make doc html pdf". OK to install?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
>
> gcc/
> * doc/rtl.texi (fma): Clarify documentation.
>
> Index: gcc/doc/rtl.texi
> ===================================================================
> --- gcc/doc/rtl.texi 2015-01-12 15:28:02.413075415 +0000
> +++ gcc/doc/rtl.texi 2015-02-03 14:21:02.485178134 +0000
> @@ -2306,8 +2306,8 @@ For unsigned widening multiplication, us
> @findex fma
> @item (fma:@var{m} @var{x} @var{y} @var{z})
> Represents the @code{fma}, @code{fmaf}, and @code{fmal} builtin
> -functions that do a combined multiply of @var{x} and @var{y} and then
> -adding to@var{z} without doing an intermediate rounding step.
> +functions, which compute @samp{@var{x} * @var{y} + @var{z}}
> +without doing an intermediate rounding step.
>
> @findex div
> @findex ss_div