On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 14:49 -0500, Hal Finkel wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:08:43 -0500 > "William J. Schmidt" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > FWIW, general expectations for PowerPC are that fused multiply-add is > > available by default. For example, the default for GCC on > > powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu is to generate fmadd at -O1 and above. I > > may be missing the point, but I don't see a need for the default to be > > dependent on the vendor in this case. > > Bill, > > Would it make sense for this behavior to change depending on whether > the compiler was invoked as 'cc' or 'c99' for POSIX compliance? > > Thanks again, > Hal
Hi Hal, I'm not a language lawyer, so probably not the right person to ask. That said, I can't think of a good reason why that should matter. I've never heard of language level being brought up in this context. Bill > > > > > My two cents, > > Bill > > > _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
