Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:47:10 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Whats up with sqrt?
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> From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 19 Mar 2001 10:14:53 -0800
> 
> Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk> writes:
> 
> > "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?
> 
> -fno-builtins, IIRC.

I believe this is an answer to a different question: how to prevent
GCC from not calling the library for some of the math functions.  I
think Jason was asking about the function arguments that would cause
GCC to call the library.