From: "R. D. Flowers" <rd@chatta.us>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: jFP religious wars
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <405E0938.4000505@chatta.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878yhtkis8.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>
Really sort of an inverse of -fast-math -- an insistence on total floating point correctness at the expense of any optimization that would water the correctness down any. Without it, roundings etc. thought to be minor would be allowed to happen in the middle end. I guess.
Zack Weinberg wrote:
> "R. D. Flowers" <rd@chatta.us> writes:
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>>would not some flag like -fp-pedantic (or however to fit in the
>>namespace) be a good idea (for both decent sets of folks: the
>>fast-and-a-little-dirty and the clean-and-a-little-slow people)?
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> Maybe. What would it do?
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2004-03-22 2:08 ` gcc Digest 21 Mar 2004 05:08:56 -0000 Issue 3435 R. D. Flowers
2004-03-22 2:39 ` jFP religious wars R. D. Flowers
2004-03-22 3:35 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-03-22 4:00 ` R. D. Flowers [this message]
2004-03-22 8:06 ` Robert Dewar
2004-03-22 8:03 ` Robert Dewar
2004-03-22 11:37 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-03-22 12:45 ` R. D. Flowers
2004-03-22 13:25 ` Robert Dewar
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