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Subject: Transcendental functions
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Date: 11 May 89 20:47:02 GMT
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How many people would like to see built-in support for transcendental
functions in GCC?  This would mean adding new rtl codes, new optabs,
new standard pattern names, and adding numerous patterns to all the
machine descriptions to take advantage of the feature.  I hesitate
to install so much change unless there is real enthusiasm for it.

Note that the built-in functions would fail to set errno and therefore
would not be compatible with ANSI C.