From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Whats up with sqrt?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:42:15 +0000
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> In fact, for most arguments, code produced by latest versions of GCC
> doesn't even call the library function, it emits an FP instruction
> that computes the square root directly.

What arguments would cause the library function to be called?