GCC options and floating-point correctness (benchmarks)

[Robert Dewar]

Joe Buck wrote:

> But there's a problem.  People have posted trivial programs where icc
> majorly violates IEEE rules.  Could Intel be tuning specifically to work
> well on paranoia

I would expect so. I would expect ANY compiler to be tested against
Paranoia.

but take impermissible shortcuts elsewhere?

We already have some examples, so this is definitely the case.