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From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What is WIP?
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:47:58 -0700
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Francois Charton wrote:
> Yes, it was  ftp://ftp.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/djgpp
> 
> Also note that in MOST cases (whenever you do not need the gamma and
> Bessel function) you can overcome the libm bug by NOT LINKING libm.a (no
> -lm switch) gcc won't complain about it, because libc.a has math
> functions in it (without bugs...).

But the libc functions aren't as precise as the libm functions, from what
I've heard.  For the best possible accuracy, you must link with libm
(preferably the fixed version... ;)

It's not that tough to download a 48K file, after all...

John

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