[LLVMdev] Upcoming API change: FAdd, FSub, FMul

Dan Gohman gohman at apple.com
Tue Jun 16 10:00:18 PDT 2009


On Jun 16, 2009, at 8:18 AM, BGB wrote:
>
> just me wondering:
> what is the reasoning behind this API change?...

It makes the IR a little more consistent, and it's the first
step to implement the functionality outlined here:

http://nondot.org/sabre/LLVMNotes/IntegerOverflow.txt

Also, some day the floating-point instructions will likely be
extended with floating-point-specific flags.

Dan




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