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Re: Omitted conversion float -> double in x86 back-end
Hi,
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Geert Bosch wrote:
>
> On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:50, Michael Matz wrote:
> >Pure luck. Try with -O2 or another compiler version and it will stop
> >working again. IOW: it's no workaround for the x87 problem. The only one
> >there is is -ffloat-store, and that is a performance sink. Rule of thumb:
> >don't use x87 math.
>
> There's no problem with x87 math as long as you're using long double.
That's why I called it "rule of thumb". Perhaps I should have
qualified it even more with "Matz's rule of thumb" :)
Ciao,
Michael.