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Why are mpfr, mpc and gmp needed for gcc?
- From: René Nyffenegger <rene dot nyffenegger at adp-gmbh dot ch>
- To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:11:34 +0200
- Subject: Why are mpfr, mpc and gmp needed for gcc?
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I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I only
recently tried to compile gcc and it is obviously dependant
on mpfr, mpc and gmp. These seem to be high precision
mathematical libraries. Now, I am wondering why a compiler
not only needs one of these but even three of them.