Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 05:30:48PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:17:38AM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 03:46:29PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
>> > > Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
>> > > > UNLT & ORDERED is always LT.  When would it not be true?
>> > > 
>> > > LT traps on quiet NaNs for -ftrapping-math, UNLT and ORDERED don't.
>> > 
>> > No?  -ftrapping-math makes nothing trap.  The only thing it does is to
>> > not do optimisations that are not valid if traps are considered to be
>> > a user-visible thing.
>> > 
>> > Almost nothing ever traps on quiet NaNs.
>> 
>> A lot traps even with quiet NaNs, assuming exceptions are enabled.
>> E.g. for x86 https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/cmppd#tbl-3-1 lists the
>> details which operations rise FE_INVALID and which don't if it is enabled.
>
> That is what ordered comparisons (aka signaling comparisons) do, sure.
> This is part of "almost nothing" in my count ;-)
>
> Ordered comparisons should trap both with and without -ftrapping-math.
> The difference is that with -fno-trapping math GCC can ignore that and
> just optimise code how it wants to.

Sure, no-one was disputing that.  I think you're arguing against
a strawman here.

Richard

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