jFP religious wars

[Robert Dewar]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> "R. D. Flowers" <rd@chatta.us> writes:
> 
> 
>>would not some flag like -fp-pedantic (or however to fit in the
>>namespace) be a good idea (for both decent sets of folks: the
>>fast-and-a-little-dirty and the clean-and-a-little-slow people)?
> 
> 
> Maybe.  What would it do?

I don't think this would work. There is nothing "pedantic" in
the carefully formulated rules that make it easier/possible
to write accurate floating-point code. It is far better to
have the existing flags for -ffast-math etc, which clearly
warn that the resulting semantics may be unreliable.

The use of -pedantic to cover little used language features
or rules is one thing, the use of a flag like this to give
incorrect semantics.