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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:54:53 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Bradley Walker <Brad DOT Walker AT Eng DOT Sun DOT COM>, nate AT cartsys DOT com,
djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: question about libm
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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, I wrote:

> In general, libm.a doesn't use FPU instructions at all, however.  It 
> uses high-accuracy polynomial expansions.

Sorry, this is only true for the upcoming v2.02 of DJGPP.  The current 
version of libm *does* use FPU instructions for some functions like log 
etc.  However, this means that those functions are not more accurate in 
libm than they are in libc.

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