SIMPLE: A language-independent tree IR

Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Fri Jan 4 03:31:00 GMT 2002


On 3 Jan 2002, Tom Tromey wrote:

> Something to know about Java is that how FP operations are implemented
> depends on the context.  In a `strictfp' context certain rules must be
> followed.  In other contexts, the rules are more lenient and we can do
> more optimizations.  This might matter most for RTL generation; I
> don't know.
> 
> Currently gcj ignores strictfp.  Obviously we will eventually want to
> change this.

For the C99 standard pragmas, the FENV_ACCESS, FP_CONTRACT and
CX_LIMITED_RANGE pragmas also need to have their state attached to trees
and RTL.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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