Floating-point Arithmetic Optimizations Overview

This section summarizes compiler options that provide optimizations for floating-point data and floating-point precision on IA-32, Intel® EM64T, and Intel® Itanium® architectures. The topics include the following:

• Improving or restricting floating-point precision

• Floating-point for multiple architectures

• Floating-point for IA-32 and Intel® EM64T architectures

• Floating-point for Itanium® architectures