zahiraam added a comment.

In D136786#3907235 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D136786#3907235>, 
@michele.scandale wrote:

> In D136786#3903646 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D136786#3903646>, @zahiraam 
> wrote:
>
>> The changes in this patch look good to me. 
>> @michele.scandale please make sure not to drop the driver changes that we 
>> agreed upon in this patch. Thanks.
>
> I started looking at the change needed to have `unsafe-math => 
> fp-contract=fast`.
>
> If I look how `-ffast-math` behave today, I see that in the driver code 
> `-ffast-math` changes the state for `FPContract` 
> (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/Clang.cpp#L3032),
>  but then the condition for which `-ffast-math` is forwarded to the CC1 
> (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/Clang.cpp#L3149)
>  doesn't consider `FPContract`. This seems related to the fact that GCC does 
> emit `__FAST_MATH__` even if the contraction mode is not fast.
> From a quick look the `FastMath` language options is used mainly to guard 
> some macro definition and a codegen path for complex floating point values, 
> so this seems ok in practice.
>
> It seems intended that the semantic of `-ffast-math` for the CC1 is different 
> than the semantic of `-ffast-math` for the compiler driver. Based on this, 
> I'd expect a similar solution for `-funsafe-math-optimizations`, i.e. 
> `-funsafe-math-optimizations => -ffp-contract=fast` only at the compiler 
> driver level.  Does this sound good?
>
> If so, then the driver change for the `-funsafe-math-optimizations -> 
> -ffp-contract=fast` could be done separately without affecting the code here.
>
>> I talked to @andrew.w.kaylor offline: I was thinking that it might be 
>> necessary to make the two driver changes we talked about, before merging 
>> this patch. But if the tests pass then I think it's okay to implement the 
>> driver changes in an upcoming patch.
>
> In this patch the only suboptimal test change is the change to 
> `clang/test/CodeGenOpenCL/relaxed-fpmath.cl`, where despite the presence of 
> `-cl-unsafe-math-optimizations` the `"unsafe-fp-math"="true"` function 
> attributes is not generated due to the contraction mode not being fast.
> My understanding is that `-cl-fast-relaxed-math` should be equivalent to 
> `-ffast-math`, and `-cl-unsafe-math-optimizations` should be equivalent to 
> `-funsafe-math-optimizations` from the user perspective.
>
> From what I see the `-cl-*` options are simply forwarded as-is to the CC1, 
> and this seems to be the desired behavior for the compiler driver w.r.t. 
> OpenCL specific options. From what I see 
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp#L3803
>  implements `-cl-fast-relaxed-math => -ffast-math`, but this solution doesn't 
> play well if on the same command line you also have `-ffp-contract=VAL` as 
> the relative order of the options is not taken into account. I'd expect a 
> similar change for the `-cl-unsafe-math-optimizations` case.
>
> I can either put a `TODO` comment in the 
> `clang/test/CodeGenOpenCL/relaxed-fpmath.cl` test, and make the changes with 
> the driver changes for `-funsafe-math-optimizations`, otherwise the change 
> for the `-cl-unsafe-math-optimizations` options needs to be done in this 
> patch.
>
> Any preference?

That's exactly what I was worried about.
I think it would be best to create another patch to make the 
'funsafe-math-optimization' => FpContract=fast and make sure we have coherence 
with 'ffast-math' and the cl options, then check in this patch once that's done.


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