[LLVMdev] some thoughts on the semantics of !fpmath

Anton Korobeynikov anton at korobeynikov.info
Tue Apr 17 00:58:37 PDT 2012


Hi Dan,

> The !fpmath metadata violates the original spirit of
> metadata, which is that metadata is only supposed to exclude
> possible runtime conditions, rather than to introduce new
> possible runtime possibilities.
This was already violated by objc-specific metadata and if I get Chris
right - this is the intended behavior.

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University



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