Porposal: Floating-Point Options

[Robert Dewar]

Mirza wrote:
> re: -ffp-damn-the-torpedoes-full-speed-ahead
> 
> If this option makes it into GCC, maybe it could be named -O3_unsafe. It 
> would be (probably) default for 99% of projects out there to use this 
> option alone (which is OK), so why not make their life easier. Just a 
> thought.
> 
> mirza

I would avoid the words safe and unsafe, because

a) they are technical terms in the realm of high integrity programming
b) they are unnecessarily emotive (who wants unsafe code?)