jFP religious wars
Robert Dewar
dewar@gnat.com
Mon Mar 22 08:06:00 GMT 2004
R. D. Flowers wrote:
> Really sort of an inverse of -fast-math -- an insistence on total
> floating point correctness at the expense of any optimization that would
> water the correctness down any. Without it, roundings etc. thought to be
> minor would be allowed to happen in the middle end. I guess.
Rounding is not some pedantic issue, proper rounding means that
you can reason much more clearly about floating-point semantics.
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