[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: -mieee CFLAG missing on alpha (patch included)

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:14:39PM -0500, Andrew A. Gill wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Thomas Cort wrote:
> >
> >So you see, dividing by zero has the same result whether or not I use
> >the -mieee flag. Therefore, I question the validity of the your
> >statement that a division by zero FPE was fixed by adding a compiler
> >flag that has no effect on division by zero exceptions. I was
> >wondering if you could explain to me why exactly adding -mieee on an
> >alpha would be a bad solution?
> 
> >From the site that you cite:
> 
> 	This generally causes less than a 5% performance hit.

We consider 1% performance hit large. :) 5% is considered bigger than
the goatse man's orifice.

Rich