GCC beaten by ICC in stupid trig test!

Robert Dewar dewar@gnat.com
Sun Mar 21 16:55:00 GMT 2004


Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> | That's fair enough, but then we should keep this criterion in mind
> | (no optimization that would be useful to competent floating-point
> | programmers should be included in -ffast-math :-)
> 
> I had always thought that was the case :-)
> Now, if you're saying that is not what -ffast-math is supposed to
> mean, then I'm nervous.

Everyone I think agrees that this is what -ffast-math means. What
is a potential problem is that not everyone has a good understanding
of fpt issues, so the decision of what goes into -ffast-math needs
constant vigilance :-)



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