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Hello Eli!
In Lunes 28 Septiembre 1998 at 16:25, Eli Zaretskii wrote to Boon van der
RJ:
>> > 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)
EZ> That's correct: libm.a is slower than libc.a, but more accurate, and
EZ> more standard-complying as far as setting errno is considered.
This is good to know. I'll follow using libc.a, as speed is a matter 8-)
>> > 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.)
EZ> It could be that RHIDE itself masks FP exceptions, whereas stock DJGPP
EZ> startup code masks only some of them.
Good to know 8-)
Thank you very much for your help! 8-)
Regards,
Eneko Lacunza.
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