[RFC] MIPS ABI Extension for IEEE Std 754 Non-Compliant Interlinking

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Tue Nov 17 15:07:00 GMT 2015


On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  Any or all of these options may have effects beyond propagating the IEEE
> Std 754 compliance mode down to the assembler and the linker.  In
> particular `-mieee=strict' is expected to guarantee code generated to
> fully comply to IEEE Std 754 rather than only as far as NaN representation
> is concerned.

"guarantee" seems rather strong given the various known issues with (lack 
of) Annex F support in GCC.  Do you have any actual configuration in mind 
it would affect, MIPS-specific or otherwise?  For 
non-architecture-specific things, -std= options for C standards 
conformance are meant to enable whatever options are required (e.g. they 
disable the default -ffp-contract=fast), without affecting things not 
required by the standards by default (so they don't enable -frounding-math 
or -fsignaling-nans, for example).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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