Re: powerpc/rs6000 implicit FPU usage

2005-11-01 Thread David Edelsohn
> Till Straumann writes: Till> Has this kind of optimization (using the FPU for Till> data objects other than double/float) been deliberately Till> abandoned or is it the side-effect of other changes? Side-effect of other changes. David

powerpc/rs6000 implicit FPU usage

2005-11-01 Thread Till Straumann
The issue of gcc implicitely generating floating point instructions (i.e., without 'double' or 'float' types being used in the source code) has come up a few times in the past (e.g., 2002/10: GCC floating point usage) Miraculously, I found that gcc-4.0.2 (unlike 3.2 or 3.4) no longer generates a