nastafev added a comment.
Hello. It seems you were well aware that you are changing the semantics of FP
operation here by ignoring the signaling/quiet portion of the immediate. But
what shall the user do now? There was no way to force quiet FP comparison
behavior in C language, so intrinsics an
nastafev added a comment.
> can trigger arbitrary floating-point exceptions anywhere in your code
I believe this statement reflects the current state of many compilers on the
market, I guess I just don't see the reason why making things worse. It seems
the original intent of the commit was to
nastafev added a comment.
Thanks, I agree with @andrew.w.kaylor and his interpretation.
I was trying to convey the message that the programmer operating with
intrinsics relies on the semantics they carry because there's no other way to
express that semantics. Re-optimizing what's already optimiz
