RFR: 8295159: DSO created with -ffast-math breaks Java floating-point arithmetic [v8]

[Andrew Haley]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:41:08 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> What difference does it make if it does?
>
> I was trying to understand the BSD+gcc combination. We use clang on MacOS, so the only platform I thought would be affected would be one of the BSDs. 
> 
> But I thought those also moved to clang in their builds. Hence my question.

These third-party libraries can come from anywhere. Given that the overhead added to `dlopen()` is almost immeasurably small, I think it's better to keep it.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10661#discussion_r1356951742