Re: [PATCH 0/4] floating-point specific instructions

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On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Luc Van Oostenryck
<luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Floating-point arithmetic is quite different from arithmetic
> on integers (or on real numbers). In particular,
> most transformations, simplifications that can be done on integers
> are invalid when done on floats.
>
> Since they don't follow the same rules as their integer
> counterpart, better to give a specific opcode to floating-point
> operations instead of having to test the type of the operands at
> each manipulation.
>

This has now been pushed this to my dev tree at:
        git://github.com/lucvoo/sparse.git master

By excluding the floating-point operations from the integer ones,
this fixes a whole class of problems with illegal simplification of
float operations.

This ends the first batch of essential fixes I wanted to be integrated.

-- Luc
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