To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: floating point woes
From: alane AT wozzle DOT linet DOT org (J. Alan Eldridge)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 21:42:53 EST
Organization: Disorganization

src4src!mcdhup!rutgers!acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de!kuku (Christoph Kukulies) writes:

> >Well, as long as you don't do any system calls, that is. :-)
> 
> Hhmm. Explain. I think libm is self contained and whenever it should
> do a system call it will take the one from djgpp libc.a. Or am I wrong?


Well, system calls are encoded in the binary in a system dependent way...

I _don't_ mean calling a library routine that makes a system call, I mean
_being_ the routine that actually calls the OS. That is, of course, not
portable. Perhaps I was ambiguous... I was not commenting on libm.a, I
was commenting on binary compatibility.

E.g., you can't take the binary for write() and link it in with DJ's
stuff and expect it to do other than fault.





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