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Re: why not consfold sin(const)
> From: Toon Moene
>
> > Robert Dewar wrote:
> >
> > Of course in practice a constant like this will often be pulled
> > out of loops, CSE'ed etc, so the impact may be smaller than
> > expected.
>
> In sensible languages for floating point computations, yes. One has to
> conclude, though, that floating point arithmetic was added as an
> afterthought to C - not surprising, given its initial niche.
>
> All functions in <math.h> can set errno for domain and range errors;
> in other words, those functions are not pure, and cannot be moved out
> of loops or CSE'd away.
If one uses -fno-math-errno, then sqrt is marked "pure". If you use
-funsafe-math-optimizations then it is marked "const". (See comments
in builtins.def for ATTR_MATHFN_FPROUNDING and
ATTR_MATHFN_FPROUNDING_ERRNO.)
The g77 frontend sets -fno-math-errno automatically, so I guess it's a
"sensible" language. However I cannot find where (if) the new fortran
frontend does it. So it remains to be seen whether that one is
sensible or not. :-)
You may want to check into that.
--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu