Abe Skolnik via llvm-dev
2016-Sep-09 22:21 UTC
[llvm-dev] defaults for FP contraction [e.g. fused multiply-add]: suggestion and patch to be slightly more aggressive and to make Clang`s optimization settings closer to having the same meaning as when they are given to GCC [at least for "-O3"]
On 09/09/2016 04:31 PM, Stephen Canon wrote:> Gating this on -Owhatever is dangerous, . We should simply default to the pragma “on” state universally.Why so? [honestly asking, not arguing] My guess: b/c we don`t want programs to give different results when compiled at different "-O<...>" settings with the exception of "-Ofast". At any rate, the above change is trivial to apply to my recent proposed patch: just remove the "&& (Res.getCodeGenOpts().OptimizationLevel >= 3)" part of the condition. Regards, Abe
Steve Canon via llvm-dev
2016-Sep-09 22:27 UTC
[llvm-dev] defaults for FP contraction [e.g. fused multiply-add]: suggestion and patch to be slightly more aggressive and to make Clang`s optimization settings closer to having the same meaning as when they are given to GCC [at least for "-O3"]
Sent from my iPhone> On Sep 9, 2016, at 6:21 PM, Abe Skolnik <a.skolnik at samsung.com> wrote: > >> On 09/09/2016 04:31 PM, Stephen Canon wrote: >> >> Gating this on -Owhatever is dangerous, . We should simply default to the pragma “on” state universally. > > Why so? [honestly asking, not arguing] > > My guess: b/c we don`t want programs to give different results when compiled at different "-O<...>" settings with the exception of "-Ofast".Pretty much. In particular, imagine a user trying to debug an unexpected floating point result caused by conversion of a*b + c into fma(a, b, c). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20160909/7ec0b784/attachment.html>
Abe Skolnik via llvm-dev
2016-Sep-09 22:48 UTC
[llvm-dev] defaults for FP contraction [e.g. fused multiply-add]: suggestion and patch to be slightly more aggressive and to make Clang`s optimization settings closer to having the same meaning as when they are given to GCC [at least for "-O3"]
[Stephen Canon wrote:]>>> Gating this on -Owhatever is dangerous, . We should simply default to the pragma “on” state universally.[Abe wrote:]>> Why so? [honestly asking, not arguing] >> My guess: b/c we don`t want programs to give different results when compiled at different "-O<...>" settings with the exception of "-Ofast".[Steve Canon wrote:]> Pretty much. In particular, imagine a user trying to debug an unexpected floating point result caused by conversion of a*b + c into fma(a, b, c).I strongly agree with that philosophy. I tried arguing that GCC should change its policy, but I was rebuffed ["RESOLVED INVALID"]. For reference: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77515 Regards, Abe
Chris Lattner via llvm-dev
2016-Sep-10 02:40 UTC
[llvm-dev] defaults for FP contraction [e.g. fused multiply-add]: suggestion and patch to be slightly more aggressive and to make Clang`s optimization settings closer to having the same meaning as when they are given to GCC [at least for "-O3"]
> On Sep 9, 2016, at 3:27 PM, Steve Canon via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 9, 2016, at 6:21 PM, Abe Skolnik <a.skolnik at samsung.com <mailto:a.skolnik at samsung.com>> wrote: > >> On 09/09/2016 04:31 PM, Stephen Canon wrote: >> >>> Gating this on -Owhatever is dangerous, . We should simply default to the pragma “on” state universally. >> >> Why so? [honestly asking, not arguing] >> >> My guess: b/c we don`t want programs to give different results when compiled at different "-O<...>" settings with the exception of "-Ofast". > > Pretty much. In particular, imagine a user trying to debug an unexpected floating point result caused by conversion of a*b + c into fma(a, b, c).I think that’s unavoidable, because of the way the optimization levels work. Even fma contraction is on by default (something I’d like to see), at -O0, we wouldn't be doing contraction for: auto x = a*b; auto y = x+c; but we would do that at -O2 since we do mem2reg on x. -Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20160909/f052e785/attachment.html>
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