On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 1:26 PM Alexander Monakov <amona...@ispras.ru> wrote:
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> On Wed, 22 Mar 2023, Richard Biener wrote:
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> > I think it's even less realistic to expect users to know the details of
> > floating-point math.  So I doubt any such sentence will be helpful
> > besides spreading some FUD?
>
> I think it's closer to "fundamental notions" rather than "details". For
> users who bother to read the GCC manual there's a decent chance it wouldn't
> be for naught.
>
> For documentation, I was thinking
>
>   Together with -fexcess-precision=standard, -ffp-contract=off
>   is necessary to ensure that rounding of intermediate results to precision
>   implied by the source code and the FLT_EVAL_METHOD macro is not
>   omitted by the compiler.

that sounds good to me

> Alexander

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