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Re:Will It Optimize? See how well you can anticipate gcc's o... by widdershins on Sunday April 07, 2013 @07:07PM (#5509126)
Really? Wow, I thought optimisations had to provably avoid affecting the correctness of your program. Hence:

"This need to avoid imprecise intermediate results often prevents compilers from exploiting mathematical properties like associativity when optimizing FP arithmetic."

from the explanation under Q4.

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