yaxunl added inline comments.

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Comment at: cfe/trunk/include/clang/Basic/LangOptions.def:220
+/// \brief FP_CONTRACT mode (on/off/fast).
+ENUM_LANGOPT(DefaultFPContractMode, FPContractModeKind, 2, FPC_Off, "FP 
contraction type")
 LANGOPT(NoBitFieldTypeAlign , 1, 0, "bit-field type alignment")
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anemet wrote:
> yaxunl wrote:
> > This change seemed to cause some performance degradations in some OpenCL 
> > applications.
> > 
> > This option used to be on by default. Now it is off by default.
> > 
> > There are applications do separated compile/link/codegen stages. In the 
> > codegen stage, clang is invoked with .bc as input, therefore this option is 
> > off by default, whereas it was on by default before this change.
> > 
> > Is there any reason not to keep the original behavior?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > This change seemed to cause some performance degradations in some OpenCL 
> > applications.
> > 
> > This option used to be on by default. Now it is off by default.
> 
> It's always been off.  It was set to fast for CUDA which should still be the 
> case.  See the changes further down on the patch.
> 
> > 
> > There are applications do separated compile/link/codegen stages. In the 
> > codegen stage, clang is invoked with .bc as input, therefore this option is 
> > off by default, whereas it was on by default before this change.
> > 
> > Is there any reason not to keep the original behavior?
> 
> Sorry but I am not sure what changed, can you elaborate on what you're doing 
> and how things used to work for you?
Before your change, -ffp-contract was a codegen option defined as


```
ENUM_CODEGENOPT(FPContractMode, FPContractModeKind, 2, FPC_On)
```

therefore the default value as on. After your change, it becomes off by default.


Repository:
  rL LLVM

https://reviews.llvm.org/D31167



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