aaron.ballman added inline comments.

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Comment at: clang/docs/UsersManual.rst:1484
+   Where unsafe floating point optimizations are enabled, this option
+   determines whether the optimizer honors parentheses when floating-point
+   expressions are evaluated.  If unsafe floating point optimizations are
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mibintc wrote:
> aaron.ballman wrote:
> > We may need to expound on what "honor parentheses" means. The summary for 
> > the patch mentions `(a + b) + c`, but does this also mean `(x + y) * z`  
> > could be interpreted as `x + (y * z)`? What about for non-arithmetic 
> > expressions involving parentheses, like `(float1 == float2 && float1 == 
> > float3) || blah()`?
> Thanks for your review. Just a quick first response, What do you mean "(x + 
> y) * z could be reinterpreted as x + (y * z)" -- not following you here? 
"whether the optimizer honors the parentheses" reads to me like `(x + y) * z` 
could either honor or not honor the parentheses, so that could either evaluate 
as `(x + y) * z` or `x + (y * z)` depending on whether the parens are honored 
or not.


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