Please can you submit this patch upstream ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) against the HEAD branch of gcc (which you can find as the gcc-snapshot package in Debian). Add the documentation to gcc/doc/invoke.texi.
It's up to Chris Chimelis or Falk, if it should be applied to the gcc package. Tyson Whitehead writes: > Here's a patch that makes IEEE compliant math operations (support for > denormalization, nan, inf, etc) the default on the Alpha unless it is > specifically turned off with -mno-ieee. > > It arose out of a discusion on the Alpha port list about packages SIGFPEing > on > the Alpha (see the thread 'SIGFPE and -mieee').
