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> From: Kbwms AT aol DOT com
> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:53:55 EST
> 
> This prompts me to ask, "What's the point of going to assembler when the C
> code is just as good?"

There is no point.

I think the reason for having `fma' in the library is because some
architectures have machine instructions to do that in one go.  I was
hoping someone could come up with an idea of implementing that in
DJGPP, perhaps with MMX instructions or something like that.  But if
we cannot do that efficiently, let's have the C implementation.