On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, Marius Hillenbrand via Gcc-patches wrote: > To document the new behavior around FLT_EVAL_METHOD and configure flag > --enable-s390-excess-float-precision on s390, I propose this update to > the Release Notes. Please commit to git-wwwdocs if you agree.
Thank you, Marius, and thank you Jeff for committing this. I applied the follow up below since when refering to the project, as opposed to just the C compiler, we use GCC (as opposed to gcc). Gerald commit aaf1c5103a16fba11e8c89766931be50df8a1ec9 Author: Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> Date: Tue Dec 1 23:03:04 2020 +0100 Refer to our project as GCC diff --git a/htdocs/gcc-11/changes.html b/htdocs/gcc-11/changes.html index cd6e28c1..ed289744 100644 --- a/htdocs/gcc-11/changes.html +++ b/htdocs/gcc-11/changes.html @@ -345,11 +345,11 @@ a work-in-progress.</p> <li>The behavior when compiling with <code>-fexcess-precision=standard</code> (e.g., implied by <code>-std=c99</code>) on s390(x) targets can now be controlled at configure time with the flag - <code>--enable-s390-excess-float-precision</code>. When enabled, gcc will + <code>--enable-s390-excess-float-precision</code>. When enabled, GCC will maintain previous behavior and evaluate float expressions in double precision, which aligns with the definition of <code>float_t</code> as - <code>double</code>. With the flag disabled, gcc will always evaluate - float expressions in single precision. In native builds, gcc will by + <code>double</code>. With the flag disabled, GCC will always evaluate + float expressions in single precision. In native builds, GCC will by default match the definition of <code>float_t</code> in the installed glibc. </li>