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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/using.rst b/docs/users_guide/using.rst index 787b6a0503..8de7dd3533 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/using.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/using.rst @@ -1732,6 +1732,24 @@ Some flags only make sense for particular target platforms. :ref:`native code generator <native-code-gen>`. The resulting compiled code will only run on processors that support BMI2 (Intel Haswell and newer, AMD Excavator, Zen and newer). +.. ghc-flag:: -mfma + :shortdesc: Use native FMA instructions for fused multiply-add floating-point operations + :type: dynamic + :category: platform-options + + :since: 9.8.1 + + Use native FMA instructions to implement the fused multiply-add floating-point + operations of the form ``x * y + z``. + This allows computing a multiplication and addition in a single instruction, + without an intermediate rounding step. + Supported architectures: X86 with the FMA3 instruction set (this includes + most consumer processors since 2013), PowerPC and AArch64. + + When this flag is disabled, GHC falls back to the C implementation of fused + multiply-add, which might perform non-IEEE-compliant software emulation on + some platforms (depending on the implementation of the C standard library). + Haddock ------- |