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Re: GCC and Floating-Point
Richard Guenther wrote:
> On 5/27/05, Scott Robert Ladd <scott.ladd@coyotegulch.com> wrote:
>>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.
This is where I've already started, just trying to get an idea of what
is going on inside the compiler. Is there any documentation of this sort
already? I think I know the answer to that question, but figure it
doesn't hurt to ask... ;)
I'm likely to pull my old UltraSPARC out of retirement (it hasn't been
turne don in months), just so I have something other than x86_64 and x86
to look at.
..Scott