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Re: Constant math functions in Fortran.

To: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
Subject: Re: Constant math functions in Fortran.
From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 15:50:29 -0700
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <396B0B05.AF2AACFB@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> <396DBB43.E8E8268D@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> <3970A7D8.F021E2EF@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>

On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 08:05:12PM +0200, Toon Moene wrote:
> Fortunately, calls to a lot of (g)libc routines are encoded directly by
> the FFE - these take their arguments by value, so can be regarded as to
> be really, really "const".

Careful -- most of these functions are not marked const in glibc
because of the possibility of changing rounding modes in between.
But that may not be an issue for you...

r~

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