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Re: GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test!
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: <stl at caltech dot edu>
- Cc: "GCC" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 15 Mar 2004 04:19:14 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test!
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <20040315031921.54A30109AF2@earth-ox.its.caltech.edu>
"Stephan T. Lavavej" <stl@caltech.edu> writes:
| [Scott Robert Ladd]
| > Sometimes, I wonder if GCC should ship its own Standard C
| > library, just as it ships a Standard C++ template library.
| > However, I suspect the suggesting such a move might be a bit
| > controversial... ;)
|
| Why doesn't it?
This is a tricky issue. Some standards (e.g. POSIX) make conflicting
requirements to that of ISO C standard, and as a matter of fact
demand that the C standard headers be modified. If GCC/gcc had to
come with its own C headers, then it would have to implement those
standards too -- in order to comply with user expectations.
That is a mess and GCC has better not drive into that.
-- Gaby