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From: bates@wingra.stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates)
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Subject: Inline math in gcc (was NeXT vs Sun3)
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In-reply-to: nrt@cs.brown.edu's message of 22 Oct 89 03:27:56 GMT

Nick Thompson  (nrt@cs.brown.edu) writes:

 Is gcc on the NeXT using inline 68882 instructions?  If it is and the
 Fortran compiler is not, this could explain the speed difference.
 Saving a function call for every operation will do that...

Yes, gcc does use inline floating point functions unless you define
STRICT_ANSI.  Look at the file /usr/include/math.h.