Re: [musl] [PATCH] configure: prevent compilers from turning a * b + c into fma(a, b, c)

["Alex Rønne Petersen" <alex@alexrp.com>]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 11:11 PM Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru> wrote:
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> On Wed, 28 Aug 2024, Rich Felker wrote:
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> > I'm not clear on why the -mno-fused-madd would be needed. It should be
> > a no-op with -ffp-contract=off unless __builtin_fma were called
> > explicitly or something, no?
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> I think Glibc was applying it as a workaround for old GCC releases where
> target backends were doing unrestricted contraction, or -ffp-contract=
> option did not exist in the first place.

That's right. FWIW: It was added to glibc 12 years ago. I checked
current GCC sources and I can find no indication that the
`-mno-fused-madd` is necessary today; the optimizer looks to be
respecting `-ffp-contract=off`. If we don't care about ancient GCC
versions, I think it'd be completely reasonable to leave out that
flag.

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> Alexander