GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test!

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"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