[Bug target/114083] Possible word play on conditional/unconditional

[roland.illig at gmx dot de]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114083

--- Comment #6 from Roland Illig <roland.illig at gmx dot de> ---
(In reply to Maciej W. Rozycki from comment #4)
> The flag enables the use of the conditional-move operations even with
> hardware that has no support for such operations, hence unconditionally.

Thank you for your explanation, that made the intention much clearer to me.

There's a problem with the wording though. On a platform that doesn't support
conditional-move operations, it's not possible to _use_ conditional-move
operations. Period. It's only possible to _emulate_ the behavior of these
operations.

I'm not sure how consistently the words 'operation' and 'instruction' are used
in the GCC code base and documentation, but I mixed them up in my mind when I
tried to translate this option.

> if someone has
> a better proposal, then please feel free to submit a patch.  Or would:
> 
> Enable conditional-move operations unconditionally.
> 
> be preferable?

No. Above, you wrote that the branchless instructions would be selected _if_
they are cheaper than the equivalent branch instructions. This is a condition,
thus the word 'unconditionally' doesn't fit.

What about this?
> Prefer branchless move instructions where cheaper.