Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/28/09:26:20
On 28 Sep 1998, Boon van der RJ wrote:
> > I use standards... libm is faster than standard lib?
>
> No on the contrary, but it is safer to use / sets errno when failing.
> (I hope I say it right, Eli Zaretskii (as always) knows more about
> this than I do)
That's correct: libm.a is slower than libc.a, but more accurate, and more
standard-complying as far as setting errno is considered.
> > It's strange, I don't understand why it crashed under command.com
> > but it didn't under rhide, for example. 8-)
>
> Coincidence? (Don't know about this one either.)
It could be that RHIDE itself masks FP exceptions, whereas stock DJGPP
startup code masks only some of them.
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