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<p class="MsoNormal">> Can you elaborate what kind of runtime failure is the reciprocal transformation triggering?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Yes. It was along the lines of:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"> if (y == 1.0f) {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"> // do some processing for when 'b' and 'c' are equal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Of course they understood they could easily change this code once they understood the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">But the fact that it "failed" for non-edge-case values of 'c', they were worried. As an example of the non-edge-case aspect, when 'c' is 41.0f (and so of course
'b' is 41.0f), intuitively they felt that this “would work precisely”, even with fast-math. Once they understood more, they agreed this was reasonable with fast-math, but they had the underlying concern that if they encountered one case where 'num' and 'den'
were equal (and non-edge-case), yet 'num / den' wasn't precisely 1.0f, then even if they fixed this situation where they encountered it, it might be lurking elsewhere in their code, and so they wanted to disable that transformation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">-Warren<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> mehdi.amini@apple.com [mailto:mehdi.amini@apple.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 16, 2016 7:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ristow, Warren <warren.ristow@sony.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Kaylor, Andrew <andrew.kaylor@intel.com>; llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org; Nicolai Hähnle <nhaehnle@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [llvm-dev] RFC: Consider changing the semantics of 'fast' flag implying all fast-math-flags<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Nov 16, 2016, at 6:22 PM, Ristow, Warren <<a href="mailto:warren.ristow@sony.com">warren.ristow@sony.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">> ... except that Warren’s proposal that started this discussion seems to imply that he</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">> has a use case that requires reciprocals to be turned off separately.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Just to close this loose end, yes I have a use case.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Specifically, we have a customer that turns on '‑ffast‑math', but was getting a runtime failure due to the reciprocal-transformation being done. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can you elaborate what kind of runtime failure is the reciprocal transformation triggering? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">— <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mehdi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">They don't want turn off fast‑math because they like the performance improvement, and can live with the imprecision in most cases. So they wanted to suppress
just the reciprocal-transformation. I intended to tell them the solution was simple: use '‑ffast‑math ‑fno‑reciprocal‑math'. But on trying it myself, I ran into the issue here.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">-Warren</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kaylor,
Andrew [<a href="mailto:andrew.kaylor@intel.com">mailto:andrew.kaylor@intel.com</a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, November 16, 2016 4:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Mehdi Amini <<a href="mailto:mehdi.amini@apple.com">mehdi.amini@apple.com</a>>; Ristow, Warren <<a href="mailto:warren.ristow@sony.com">warren.ristow@sony.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>; Nicolai Hähnle <<a href="mailto:nhaehnle@gmail.com">nhaehnle@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: [llvm-dev] RFC: Consider changing the semantics of 'fast' flag implying all fast-math-flags</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I don’t really like the idea of updating checks of UnsafeAlgebra() to depend on all of the other flags. It seems like it would be preferable to look at each
optimization and figure out which flags it actually requires. I suspect that in many cases the “new” flag (i.e. allowing reassociation, etc.) will be what is actually needed anyway.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I would be inclined to agree with Niolai’s suggestion of combining all the flags related to value safety, except that Warren’s proposal that started this discussion
seems to imply that he has a use case that requires reciprocals to be turned off separately.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">-Andy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">llvm-dev
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, November 16, 2016 8:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Ristow, Warren <<a href="mailto:warren.ristow@sony.com"><span style="color:purple">warren.ristow@sony.com</span></a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [llvm-dev] RFC: Consider changing the semantics of 'fast' flag implying all fast-math-flags</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">> I think these are valuable problems to solve, but you should tackle them piece by piece:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">> 1) the clang part of overriding the individual FMF and emitting the right IR is the first thing to fix.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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David made the same point that it should be done in Clang. I can understand that, but I wonder whether having the concept of the 'fast' flag in the IR that implies all the other FMF makes sense? I'm not seeing a good reason for it, but since this is very
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the fast-math flags 'nnan', 'ninf', 'nsz', 'arcp' and 'fast’ are defined. Except for 'fast', each of these has a fairly specific definition of what they mean. For example, for 'arcp':</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Maybe that could be a starting point: changing the “UnsafeAlgebra” bit in the FMF to be “aggr” you mention and replace all the query to FastMathFlags::UnsafeAlgebra() to return true if all the bits are set in the Flags. This alone should
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">But I don't see a way to express 'aggr' in the IR. We could do this, if we change the definition of the IR 'fast' flag to remove that sentence about implying all the
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be better expressed by a separate flag, which could then be controlled independently via '-f[no]-associative-math' switch. Not having that flag exist separately in the FMF is the origin of PR27372. But creating that flag and using it in the appropriate places
would still run into these problems of 'fast' implying all the others, which would make it impossible to disable reassociation while leaving all the other FMF transformations enabled.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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see how we can effectively disable a subset of those other FMF transformations (while leaving 'aggr' transformations, such as reassociation, enabled). With that in mind, my patch took one step in having 'fast' no longer imply all the others.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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