Re: Misc: BGBCC targeting RV64G, initial results...

Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> schrieb:

On 10/16/2024 8:59 AM, Paul A. Clayton wrote:
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I do not know of any enumeration of conditions that would be
commonly useful. Less than, equal to, greater than might be
somewhat useful for a three-way branch.

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That was the function of the arithmetic if statement in original
Fortran.  If it were more useful, it wouldn't have been taken out of the
language long ago.

Not so long ago, actually, it was only dropped in Fortran 2018.
I actually think that this is a bad idea, compilers will continue
to support such features, but possible interactions with other
features will no longer be properly defined.