Given IEEE-754's sway, and its saying what it does on this point, but given also the popularity of NaN-propagating min and max, how about a compromise? We add intrinsics following the IEEE-754 semantics, but we also follow IEEE-754 (and ARMv8) in renaming them to minnum and maxnum, to clarify which interpretation these intrinsics are using. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20140915/ef59050f/attachment.html>
I’d be fine with that proposal. I could even be convinced if we wanted to add a pair of NaN-propagating intrinsics as well, for targets and languages that want those semantics, even if I disagree with them. I do think that, if we are using the minnum/maxnum names, we should explicitly note that they are equivalent to C’s fmin/fmax, but not std::min/std::max or Java(script)’s min/max. —Owen> On Sep 15, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Dan Gohman <dan433584 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Given IEEE-754's sway, and its saying what it does on this point, but given also the popularity of NaN-propagating min and max, how about a compromise? We add intrinsics following the IEEE-754 semantics, but we also follow IEEE-754 (and ARMv8) in renaming them to minnum and maxnum, to clarify which interpretation these intrinsics are using.
On Sep 15, 2014, at 4:17 PM, Owen Anderson <resistor at mac.com> wrote:> I’d be fine with that proposal. I could even be convinced if we wanted to add a pair of NaN-propagating intrinsics as well, for targets and languages that want those semantics, even if I disagree with them. I do think that, if we are using the minnum/maxnum names, we should explicitly note that they are equivalent to C’s fmin/fmax, but not std::min/std::max or Java(script)’s min/max. > > —Owen > > >> On Sep 15, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Dan Gohman <dan433584 at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Given IEEE-754's sway, and its saying what it does on this point, but given also the popularity of NaN-propagating min and max, how about a compromise? We add intrinsics following the IEEE-754 semantics, but we also follow IEEE-754 (and ARMv8) in renaming them to minnum and maxnum, to clarify which interpretation these intrinsics are using. > > > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdevI can rename these, but the convention followed by all the other LLVM intrinsics follow the C library names