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authorCraig Burley <burley@melange.gnu.org>1998-09-28 03:17:17 +0000
committerJeff Law <law@gcc.gnu.org>1998-09-27 21:17:17 -0600
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invoke.texi (-ffloat-store): Clarify that this option does not affect intermediate results -- only variables.
* invoke.texi (-ffloat-store): Clarify that this option does not affect intermediate results -- only variables. From-SVN: r22614
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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Sep 28 04:15:44 1998 Craig Burley <burley@melange.gnu.org>
+
+ * invoke.texi (-ffloat-store): Clarify that this option
+ does not affect intermediate results -- only variables.
+
Mon Sep 28 04:11:35 1998 Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com)
* cpp.texi: Update for Fortran usage from Craig.
diff --git a/gcc/invoke.texi b/gcc/invoke.texi
index b7238cc..e60cfd1 100644
--- a/gcc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/invoke.texi
@@ -2159,7 +2159,8 @@ the 68000 where the floating registers (of the 68881) keep more
precision than a @code{double} is supposed to have. Similarly for the
x86 architecture. For most programs, the excess precision does only
good, but a few programs rely on the precise definition of IEEE floating
-point. Use @samp{-ffloat-store} for such programs.
+point. Use @samp{-ffloat-store} for such programs, after modifying
+them to store all pertinent intermediate computations into variables.
@item -fno-default-inline
Do not make member functions inline by default merely because they are