[RFC] Fix PR28684
Paul Brook
paul@codesourcery.com
Thu Nov 16 16:01:00 GMT 2006
> > associate:
> > /* In most languages, can't associate operations on floats through
> > parentheses. Rather than remember where the parentheses were, we
> > don't associate floats at all, unless the user has specified
> > -funsafe-math-optimizations. */
>
> Ah, interesting. As a numerical guy, the "reorder unless in paranthesis"
> is certainly what I'm used to, but I figured it was the hassle of keeping
> track of it that kept you guys from implementing . . .
That's because you're used to programming in Fortran. No such rule exists in
C. gfortran doesn't currently take advantage of that particular fortran
feature, but that's a largely separate issue.
Paul
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