java.lang.StrictMath

Fri Feb 15 08:55:00 GMT 2002

Alexandre Oliva writes:
 > On Feb 15, 2002, Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
 > 
 > > So, unless I misunderstand something and there is more to it, we
 > > should make -ffast-math the default for Java except where strictfp is
 > > encountered.
 > 
 > I'm not sure going all the way to -ffast-math would be appropriate,
We have to distingush between Java strictfp compliance and IEEE
compliance. strictfp doesn't allow temporaries to be of larger
precision than double, for example. IEEE does.
I agree that -ffast-math as a default is probably a bad idea.
Andrew.