> 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
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