+@item -mrecip
+@itemx -mno-recip
+@opindex mrecip
+This option will enable GCC to use the reciprocal estimate and
+reciprocal square root estimate instructions with additional
+Newton-Raphson steps to increase precision instead of doing a divide or
+square root and divide for floating point arguments. You should use
+the @option{-ffast-math} option when using @option{-mrecip} (or at
+least @option{-funsafe-math-optimizations},
+@option{-finite-math-only}, @option{-freciprocal-math} and
+@option{-fno-trapping-math}). Note that while the throughput of the
+sequence is generally higher than the throughput of the non-reciprocal
+instruction, the precision of the sequence can be decreased by up to 2
+ulp (i.e. the inverse of 1.0 equals 0.99999994) for reciprocal square
+roots.
+
+@item -mrecip=@var{opt}
+@opindex mrecip=opt
+This option allows to control which reciprocal estimate instructions
+may be used. @var{opt} is a comma separated list of options, that may
+be preceeded by a @code{!} to invert the option:
+@code{all}: enable all estimate instructions,
+@code{default}: enable the default instructions, equvalent to @option{-mrecip},
+@code{none}: disable all estimate instructions, equivalent to @option{-mno-recip};
+@code{div}: enable the reciprocal approximation instructions for both single and double precision;
+@code{divf}: enable the single precision reciprocal approximation instructions;
+@code{divd}: enable the double precision reciprocal approximation instructions;
+@code{rsqrt}: enable the reciprocal square root approximation instructions for both single and double precision;
+@code{rsqrtf}: enable the single precision reciprocal square root approximation instructions;
+@code{rsqrtd}: enable the double precision reciprocal square root approximation instructions;
+
+So for example, @option{-mrecip=all,!rsqrtd} would enable the
+all of the reciprocal estimate instructions, except for the
+@code{FRSQRTE}, @code{XSRSQRTEDP}, and @code{XVRSQRTEDP} instructions
+which handle the double precision reciprocal square root calculations.
+
+@item -mrecip-precision
+@itemx -mno-recip-precision
+@opindex mrecip-precision
+Assume (do not assume) that the reciprocal estimate instructions
+provide higher precision estimates than is mandated by the powerpc
+ABI. Selecting @option{-mcpu=power6} or @option{-mcpu=power7}
+automatically selects @option{-mrecip-precision}. The double
+precision square root estimate instructions are not generated by
+default on low precision machines, since they do not provide an
+estimate that converges after three steps.
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