GCC beaten by ICC in stupid trig test!

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

| > Floating-point operations are precisely defined in IEEE and if I am
| > a serious fpt programmer, I write the computations I want, and I do
| > not want the compiler substituting arbitrary non-equivalent
| > expressions.
| 
| Fine, I just ask for a compiler flag for the *other* kind of
| programmers, and for you not to discourage people from adding
| optimization there.

Calling a transformation an "optimization" before it is proven an
optimization is a serious semantic hole that undermines many
reasonings in that department.

-- Gaby