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Re: Two small patches


Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> writes:

| Gabriel Dos_Reis <Gabriel.Dos_Reis@sophia.inria.fr> writes:
| 
| > Yes, I considered that alternative but prefered to rely on the
| > builtins.  Could you elaborate on why the builtins aren't acceptable?
| 
| I don't think they are available everywhere.  They exist on platforms
| which has instructions to implement them in hardware (ix86, m68k) but
| not on machines where they have to be implemented in software.

Right.  The definitive answer is configure.in :-)
Thanks.

-- Gaby

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