Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc 4.1 + CFLAGS
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:24:26
Message-Id: 1149851981.13321.7.camel@scarlatti.leonora.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc 4.1 + CFLAGS by "Michael Weyershäuser"
1 On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 07:47 +0200, Michael Weyershäuser wrote:
2 > I don't recommend -ffast-math on a global basis (or at all), it gets you
3 > right where the Pentium fdiv bug brought us some years ago: floating
4 > point operations will be faster, but they could get a wrong result in
5 > some occasions...
6
7 Linus seems to use -ffast-math:
8 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-07/msg02150.html. At least in 2001 he
9 did.
10
11 --- Vladimir
12
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc 4.1 + CFLAGS "Michael Weyershäuser" <thedude0001@×××.de>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc 4.1 + CFLAGS Ian McCulloch <ianmcc@××××××××××××××××××.de>