__builtin_isless, __builtin_islessequal on mips targets

[Eric Christopher]

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 15:58 +0400, Nadezhda Ivanоvna Vyukova wrote:
> The __builtin_isless, __builtin_islessequal functions are provided as 
> implementations of standard C99 functions 'isless', 'isgreater'. Please,
> explain why gcc for mips implements them via instructions 
> 
>     c.lt.FMT and 
>     c.le.FMT 
> 
> instead of 
> 
>     c.olt.FMT and 
>     c.ole.FMT.

No reason in particular. The only difference is that the first will
signal an exception on QNaN and the second won't, thereby simplifying
the programming model. Do you have a good reason for doing it the other
way?

-eric