GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test!

[Scott Robert Ladd]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps GCC could provide a clean ISO C library that is enabled with the 
-std=c99 switch? After all, GCC does include an ISO C++ library, and a 
Fortran 95 library (in tree-ssa).

The compiler could link against the system C library, except when the 
user explicitly declares that they wish to use the GCC-supplied library.

I've also noticed a couple of alternative libraries for embedded systems 
(uClib and newlib). I may experiment with these...

-- 
Scott Robert Ladd
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