Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/10/08/15:08:21
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Eric Rudd wrote:
> The current libc functions make full use of the coprocessor
> transcendental instructions, but some functions, notably asin() and
> most of the hyperbolics, have serious accuracy problems. They will
> also bomb with a traceback for exceptional arguments, which ANSI
> does not allow.
The latter problem is corrected in v2.02, where exceptions are masked
by default in the startup code, so you will have a NaN instead of a
crash. But libc functions are still not 100% ANSI, since they don't
set errno as required.
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