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Re: GCC and Floating-Point

Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:

On Friday 27 May 2005 13:51, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

So, yes, -ffast-math by default would really be a bad idea and would
make gcc much worse than other compilers.

Thanks for the tests. I had no idea GCCs fast-math was that different from other compilers.

Maybe the real goal like other have mentioned should be to divide the -ffast-math into multiple switches.

Good Luck :-)

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-08/msg00368.html

(it's only four years ago - I can also show you my contributions in this thread in 1999, i.e., the previous millennium).

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