Re: [PATCH?] Implement exp and log builtins as x86 intrinsics

[Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>]

On 04-Aug-2002, Roger Sayle <roger@eyesopen.com> wrote:
> 
> > IMO there's no point in doing this if you leave the thing as one
> > large hunk of code.  Why aren't you allowing this to be scheduled?
> 
> The main point was that the code would get inlined, as is done by
> Microsoft's MSVC and Intel's compilers, for example.

It will already get inlined with GCC currently, if the library defines
it appropriately, as is done by the GNU C library.

(True since at least gcc-2.95.2 and glibc-2.1.3.)

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