[cfe-commits] [PATCH] Add -fexcess-precision option.

[Hal Finkel]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:56:02 -0700
Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com> wrote:

> As this is largely unrelated to what names we choose to give things in
> Clang's commandline interface...
> 
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > But the LLVM option is called enable-excess-fp-precision; I would
> > like to have consistency across both LLVM and clang.
> >
> 
> I agree that this is a noble goal. The good news is that LLVM's
> options are implementation details that we control and can change
> freely. I don't really care what the internal option is called, as
> long as the folks hacking on the code understand it, and it is
> correctly used. =] It's also not a problem to start with a poor name
> here and fix it later as we don't build up any legacy with it.

My point is that we *just* changed the name a few days ago. Now is the
prime time to change it in light of the present discussion.

 -Hal

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Hal Finkel
Postdoctoral Appointee
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory