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From: bammi@dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu (Jwahar R. Bammi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GNU C Floating Point Math
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Date: 4 Dec 89 21:02:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: esp_05@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Stdnt 05)

In article <3497@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, esp_05@jhunix (Stdnt 05) writes:
>Some of the errors include:
>	cos(0) doesn't seem to work
>	(x*x)+(y*y) doesn't work when -1<y<0
>	sqrt() doesn't work (with -mshort only);
>	   neither do related functions frexp and pow.
>
	you have a very old copy. all of the above problems in the Fp support
routines and pml were fixed some time ago. please grab yourself a new copy
from dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu or from the terminator archive.

>Any ideas or suggestions?  After comparing GNU C with an ancient copy
>of the original (c.1986) Megamax C, with Megamax C blowing GNU C away,

	can you be more specific. in what sense did it "blow it away"?
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