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Subject: RE: llrint implementation in Cygwin
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:49:48 -0000
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On 29 October 2007 12:28, Brian Dessent wrote:

> This is a very, very bad idea.  MinGW uses a completely different and
> incompatible C runtime (MSVCRT) and so any MinGW object that calls into
> the runtime (e.g. malloc(), open(), printf(), etc) will crash and burn
> hard when linked to the Cygwin runtime.  It is simple blind luck that
> llrint() is apparently a self-contained function that has no calls to
> any C runtime support functions, but this is not a practical technique
> in general.

  I don't think it was being advocated in general, but I think it's reasonable
to assume that a pure const function like llrint isn't going to do anything
wacky.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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