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Re: Second Draft "Unsafe fp optimizations" project description.
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl
- Subject: Re: Second Draft "Unsafe fp optimizations" project description.
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:32:08 -0400 (EDT)
<<Obviously, it is useless to talk about the ill effects of rearranging
floating point expressions without having a solid reference. To simplify the
analysis below, this project confines itself to the targets that support the
IEEE-754 Standard, using the standard rounding mode for reference.
>>
Once again, the IEEE-754 standard has nothing whatsoever to say about
evaluation of floating-point expressions in high level languages.