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From: quale@uhura.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: C math library under HPUX-6.21
Keywords: C, math library, HPUX, HP-9000/300
Message-ID: <144@uhura.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 26 Jan 89 22:05:54 GMT
Organization: Undergraduate Projects Laboratory, University of Wisc. - Madison
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HPUX-5.3 for the HP-9000/300s allowed the ld library -l881 to use the
MC68881 math coprocessor to perform the math functions in the -lm library.
Even though I never saw this documented, it seemed to work.

Now that we've upgraded to 6.21 this library is gone, and the code generated
using -lm is a bit bulkier than the code generated by 5.3 using -l881.

What's up?

 -- Doug Quale
 uhura.cs.wisc.edu