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Re: GCC and Floating-Point
On 2005-05-27 07:58:28 -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > So, yes, -ffast-math by default would really be a bad idea and would
> > make gcc much worse than other compilers.
>
> Who has advocated making -ffast-math the default? I certainly haven't.
Allan Sandfeld Jensen has:
From: Allan Sandfeld Jensen <linux@carewolf.com>
Message-Id: <200505251927.22272.linux@carewolf.com>
| Yes. I still don't understand why gcc doesn't do -ffast-math by default like
| all other compilers. The people who needs perfect standard behavior are a lot
| fewer than all the packagers who doesn't understand which optimization flags
| gcc should _always_ be called with.
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