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jcranmertoday at 4:17 AM0 repliesview on HN

The short answer is you need fast-math flags to allow optimizations that may change floating-point results, and you also need to guarantee an implementation of sinpi/cospi (these were added in C23, so they're not all that common in host library implementations yet).

It's possible if you had the implementation of the math library visible to the compiler that it could do inlining and then simplify expressions, but honestly most math library function implementations are going to be the kind of function that doesn't get picked up by inline heuristics, as there's a pile of if statements (handling special cases and range reduction) that the compiler can't eliminate due to there not really existing a sufficiently powerful FP range analysis.