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Thanks for all the replies - it pretty much confirmed what I think I'd worked out about how fmuladd is supposed to behave. But my initial query wasn't asking what fmuladd did - it was asking for the documentation about it to be clarified. Can I suggest that the Overview section for fmuladd is changed to say the following (the key point being the removal of the word "legal" in

The fmuladd intrinsic is described as saying that a multiply and addition sequence can be fused into an fma instruction "if the code generator determines that the fused expression would be legal and efficient". (http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#llvm-fma-intrinsic) I've spent a bit of time puzzling over how a code generator is supposed to know if it's legal to generate an fma