On Thu, 20 Jan 2022, Andrew Waterman wrote:

> The old formulation of the instructions were never ratified as a
> RISC-V standard.  I don't think we need to hamstring ourselves here by
> assuming the possibility of their implementation.

If you ignore the old version, then the instructions can unconditionally 
be used for the fminimum_num / fmaximum_num functions (which GCC doesn't 
support as built-in functions at present) - but can't be used for the fmin 
/ fmax functions if flag_signaling_nans.

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Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com

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