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Re: Should -fcross-jumping be part of -O1?


Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Would we really want -Oaccuracy to range from 0 to 3?  It seems to me
that you either care about accurate floating point, or you do not.

Having studied the issue at lenght, I've concluded that... it's complicated.


I guess I'm lumping several related concepts under "accuracy." For example, a certain class of users wants absolute IEEE-754/IEC-60559 conformancy, for consistent results across platforms; other people want the most accurate results for their specific platform.

Also -Ospeed and -Ofast will be confused with each other, so one of
them needs to be renamed.

Correct; time to get out the thesaurus, I guess -- or go with longer names, like -Ocompile-speed, -Ogenerated-code-speed, or -Omake-the-fastest-program-you-can-no-matter-what.


Some of the -f options are almost that lengthy... ;)

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