Xref: utzoo comp.lang.fortran:4165 comp.lang.c:34288 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!exodus-bb!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (chiba) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work (SUMMARY) Message-ID: Date: 27 Nov 90 18:22:15 GMT References: <21884@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <1990Nov21.220816.15220@rice.edu> <2173@tuvie> <1990Nov27.175023.26039@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Followup-To: comp.lang.fortran Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 21 In-reply-to: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 27 Nov 90 17:50:23 GMT In article <1990Nov27.175023.26039@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: > >I think that ANSI C has a method by which compilers may make sin, cos >etc intrinsic, but I don't remember how it works... It's really very simple: they are allowed to be intrinsic, essentially. There is no complexity or mystery. C and Fortran are no longer different in this regard, except insofar as the Fortran libraries are larger. But in ANSI C one is still stuck with ERRNO which makes computing things out of order, and/or at the same time, far more entertaining and challenging. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keith H. Bierman kbierman@Eng.Sun.COM | khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043