Constant math functions in Fortran.

Toon Moene toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl
Sun Jul 16 12:33:00 GMT 2000


Richard Henderson wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 08:05:12PM +0200, I 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...

No, that won't be a problem until we implement a F2K compiler - but
thanks for notifying me; we might need this information some day ...

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