[MLton] making -detect-overflow and -safe expert options
Matthew Fluet
fluet@cs.cornell.edu
Sun, 5 Sep 2004 18:24:32 -0400 (EDT)
> What do people think about making -detect-overflow and -safe expert
> options?
Seems reasonable. I've never needed them for anything.
> Similar thinking might apply to -ieee-fp and -inline. But with
> -ieee-fp the default is to not respect the semantics.
> And -inline can
> have a major impact and seems to get used by ordinary users somewhat.
I think that John was going to put enough caveats in the spec to make
thinks o.k. on the x86. We'll see soone enough.
Maybe we need a second tier of options -- things that aren't likely to go
away (like all of the above), but which aren't really expert options.
I like the idea of having a very short normal options list.