On Saturday 05 July 2003 05:05 pm, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Tyson Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've prepared and tested a patch for gcc to address the > > -mieee issue. > > > > The patch makes -mieee the default and adds a -mieee-disable > > option to make it possible to reverse the default (maybe > > this should be called -mno-ieee). > > I'd prefer -mno-ieee.
Agreed. That seems to be the standard convention for disabling a gcc feature. Making a -m<option>-disable switch introduces inconsistency and confusion. > > I'll submit it to either the gcc mailing list, or as a bug > > rebort against gcc, shortly. Comments? Suggestions? > > I'm somewhat indetermined about this. Let's see what the gcc > list says about it :) > > I'd also suggest -ffast-math turns on -mno-ieee. It makes sense.......OTOH, my understanding is that -ffast-math is only supposed to turn on options that produce faster but slightly incorrect results. This is something a little different--it doesn't produce "slightly incorrect results," it causes certain apps to outright crash! I don't know if this is such a good thing to go under -ffast-math. It should definitely be implied by -O3, though, either directly or indirectly. -- Kelledin "If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does it still cost four figures to fix?"
