Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 10:49:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: RDC <rdc AT freenet DOT vancouver DOT bc DOT ca>
Subject: Re: more FPU woes...
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: huntercr AT cs DOT purdue DOT edu, DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

On Mon, 1 May 1995, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Why oh *why* does "make" use FPU instructions??? What are they needed for?
> Not only Make, GNU Sed also has this problem.  I don't know about Make,
> but Sed needs this because the regex package it uses does some small
> 

 Unfortunatley, in a large program, this is common.

 Either under TurboC or GCC, if it's NOT a program that needs math I leave
the math libs out so I can spot "x/2.0" problems that suck the whole .lib in.

 Often a two or three line fixed point implementation can save lots of K.

- And as previously mentioned; sometimes replacing a particularly large
library routine with alternate functions can save space too - or kill ya !

;>                                                              <- furbill

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