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Re: Fourth Draft "Unsafe fp optimizations" project description.
- To: bosch at gnat dot com, dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: Fourth Draft "Unsafe fp optimizations" project description.
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 00:47:15 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl,torvalds at transmeta dot com
<<Of course the whole issue here is the -ffast-math option, which indeed
gives up on such accuracy requirements to achieve better speed, so
your comment is not relevant here. Think of this as the Ada relaxed math mode.
>>
Well the question is whether the built-in routines can be used in normal
mode. I would say that it makes sense to say yes on this. After all, IEEE
has no notion of required accuracy for elementary functions in the first
place.