Re: [PATCH] x86: support -Ofast

Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.binutils
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 28.08.2026 11:05, Jiang, Haochen wrote:
>> From: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2026 4:40 PM
>> ---
>> If we wanted to also use this to control optimization of NOP-like insns
>> (e.g. the XCHG -> MOV one), the variable would want renaming. Question is:
>> _Do_ we (perhaps) want that?
> 
> NOP insns might be another topic. It is still vague to me. I will lean on if we
> have -Ofast, we could include that. And which variable would want renaming?
> I did not get that.

Imo while -Ofast naming-wise fits the purpose there as well, "fast_math" makes
little sense when also covering non-math transformations.

Jan
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