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Re: jFP religious wars
- From: "R. D. Flowers" <rd at chatta dot us>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:29:28 -0500
- Subject: Re: jFP religious wars
- References: <1079845736.15963.ezmlm@gcc.gnu.org> <405E0544.6020905@chatta.us> <878yhtkis8.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>
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Really sort of an inverse of -fast-math -- an insistence on total floating point correctness at the expense of any optimization that would water the correctness down any. Without it, roundings etc. thought to be minor would be allowed to happen in the middle end. I guess.
Zack Weinberg wrote:
"R. D. Flowers" <rd@chatta.us> writes:
would not some flag like -fp-pedantic (or however to fit in the
namespace) be a good idea (for both decent sets of folks: the
fast-and-a-little-dirty and the clean-and-a-little-slow people)?
Maybe. What would it do?
zw
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