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Re: GCC beaten by ICC in stupid trig test!

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

| That's fair enough, but then we should keep this criterion in mind
| (no optimization that would be useful to competent floating-point
| programmers should be included in -ffast-math :-)

I had always thought that was the case :-)
Now, if you're saying that is not what -ffast-math is supposed to
mean, then I'm nervous.


Everyone I think agrees that this is what -ffast-math means. What
is a potential problem is that not everyone has a good understanding
of fpt issues, so the decision of what goes into -ffast-math needs
constant vigilance :-)

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