GCC and Floating-Point

Paul Koning pkoning@equallogic.com
Fri May 27 18:51:00 GMT 2005


>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Robert Ladd <scott.ladd@coyotegulch.com> writes:

 Scott> Paul Koning wrote:
 Allan> Maybe the real goal like other have mentioned should be to
 Allan> divide the -ffast-math into multiple switches.
 >> Yes, and document them so both users and implementers can tell
 >> what they mean, which is not currently the case.

 Scott> I'm more than willing to do this, and relatively quickly, but
 Scott> as I said in a prior message, I need some sort of assurance
 Scott> that I wouldn't be wasting my time.

 Scott> I can post a suggested set of switches and their meanings? We
 Scott> could actually document what the switches do *before*
 Scott> implementing them.

I would support that.  Given some proposal with discernable semantics,
it's possible to have a discussion on whether those semantics are the
right ones.

      paul



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