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authorMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@codesourcery.com>2013-02-21 14:06:52 +0000
committerMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@gcc.gnu.org>2013-02-21 14:06:52 +0000
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invoke.texi (MIPS Options): Update documentation of the floating-point multiply-accumulate instruction...
* doc/invoke.texi (MIPS Options): Update documentation of the floating-point multiply-accumulate instruction restrictions. From-SVN: r196204
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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
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--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-02-21 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@codesourcery.com>
+
+ * doc/invoke.texi (MIPS Options): Update documentation of the
+ floating-point multiply-accumulate instruction restrictions.
+
2013-02-21 Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
* config/i386/i386.c (ix86_asan_shadow_offset): Use 0x7fff8000 as
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index 3b43fd0..cadee04 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -16440,10 +16440,12 @@ Enable (disable) use of the floating-point multiply-accumulate
instructions, when they are available. The default is
@option{-mfused-madd}.
-When multiply-accumulate instructions are used, the intermediate
-product is calculated to infinite precision and is not subject to
-the FCSR Flush to Zero bit. This may be undesirable in some
-circumstances.
+On the R8000 CPU when multiply-accumulate instructions are used,
+the intermediate product is calculated to infinite precision
+and is not subject to the FCSR Flush to Zero bit. This may be
+undesirable in some circumstances. On other processors the result
+is numerically identical to the equivalent computation using
+separate multiply, add, subtract and negate instructions.
@item -nocpp
@opindex nocpp