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Re: GCC and Floating-Point
On 5/27/05, Scott Robert Ladd <scott.ladd@coyotegulch.com> wrote:
> Paul Koning wrote:
> > Allan> Maybe the real goal like other have mentioned should be to
> > Allan> divide the -ffast-math into multiple switches.
> >
> > Yes, and document them so both users and implementers can tell what
> > they mean, which is not currently the case.
>
> I'm more than willing to do this, and relatively quickly, but as I said
> in a prior message, I need some sort of assurance that I wouldn't be
> wasting my time.
>
> I can post a suggested set of switches and their meanings? We could
> actually document what the switches do *before* implementing them.
Well, as I said before, actually enumerating the transformations we
currently do would be a start. And it would aid at finding useful
subclasses of transformations. As well as then having documentation
by enumerating of (current) transformations together with the switches
that affect them.
Richard.