From: enlar AT hidespam DOT iname DOT com (Eneko Lacunza)
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Subject: Re: Help - Floating Point Exception
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:10:54 +0200
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Hello Eli!

In Lunes 28 Septiembre 1998 at 16:25, Eli Zaretskii wrote to Boon van der
RJ:

 >> > I use standards... libm is faster than standard lib?
 >> No on the contrary, but it is safer to use / sets errno when
 >> failing. (I hope I say it right, Eli Zaretskii (as always) knows
 >> more about this than I do)
 EZ> That's correct: libm.a is slower than libc.a, but more accurate, and
 EZ> more standard-complying as far as setting errno is considered.

    This is good to know. I'll follow using libc.a, as speed is a matter 8-)

 >> > It's strange, I don't understand why it crashed under command.com
 >> > but it didn't under rhide, for example. 8-)
 >> Coincidence? (Don't know about this one either.)
 EZ> It could be that RHIDE itself masks FP exceptions, whereas stock DJGPP
 EZ>  startup code masks only some of them.

    Good to know 8-)

    Thank you very much for your help! 8-)

Regards,

Eneko Lacunza.
enlar/Genesis

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