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Re: Excess precision problem on IA-64
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:12:16 +0200
- Subject: Re: Excess precision problem on IA-64
- References: <200510271751.j9RHppOd012284@earth.phy.uc.edu>
> This seems like any other target which has a fused multiply and add
> instruction like PPC. Maybe a target option to turn on and off the fma
> instruction like there is for PPC.
I'm under the impression that it's worse on IA-64 because of the "infinite
precision", but I might be wrong.
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Eric Botcazou