Effects of newly introduced -mpcX 80387 precision flag
Uros Bizjak
ubizjak@gmail.com
Thu May 3 18:47:00 GMT 2007
Bradley Lucier wrote:
>
> On May 3, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Uros Bizjak wrote:
>
>> Could you please post a patch with suggested wording about this
>> option (I was trying to write something similar to the warning that
>> icc has in its documentation about precision settings).
>
> How about this? It perhaps reflects my own biases, but the term
> "catastrophic loss of accuracy" is sometimes used in the technical
> sense that I mean here. For the performance figures, I used the
> figures you gave in your e-mail but add "or more" to be on the safe side.
What about "significant loss of accuracy" as these options probably
won't cause a nuclear reactor meltdown ;)
Uros.
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