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Re: /internet
- To: tprince at cat dot e-mail dot com
- Subject: Re: /internet
- From: Stephen L Moshier <moshier at mediaone dot net>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:12:31 -0500 (EST)
- cc: bosch at gnat dot com, burley at gnu dot org, egcs at cygnus dot com, hjstein at bfr dot co dot il, jbuck at Synopsys dot COM
- Reply-To: moshier at mediaone dot net
There has been general agreement that gcc is not supposed to make
optimizations that could change the value of an expression.
Associative law optimizations of floating-point expressions certainly
can change the value and they should continue to be disallowed. Users
should not have to fear that gcc is going to take arbitrary liberties
and rewrite their programs for them without very explicit permission.