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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