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On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:36:16 -0500 |
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Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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> I've never thought of -mfpmath=sse as a "ricer" flag. If anything, it |
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> should make floating point calculations more consistent. |
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Not really. It's it's extremely target processor dependent and generally the |
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defaults are the best settings. It can vary a lot based on the SSE |
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instructions and number of registers available and the register allocator and |
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scheduler are optimized with that in mind. |
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> The varying behavior between gcc versions seems like a possibly good |
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> reason to not "support" it, but I'm not familiar with this. Has it |
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> stabilized recently or is it still in flux? |
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I'd say it's still in flux. The register allocator and instruction scheduler |
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were both rewritten for 4.4 and have seen a lot of work since then. |
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fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense |
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toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime |
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