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From: kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul)
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Subject: Re: Transcendental functions
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Date: 12 May 89 16:26:47 GMT
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In article <8905112047.AA00256@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> rms@AI.MIT.EDU writes:
>How many people would like to see built-in support for transcendental
>functions in GCC? ...
>Note that the built-in functions would fail to set errno and therefore
>would not be compatible with ANSI C.


I would like to see it, but only if it were an option.  The increase
in speed would be helpful to those of us who tend to use those
functions quite a bit.

-rich
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