GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test!

[Scott Robert Ladd]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> I don't know the situation for Fortran 95 users, but my experience is
>  that C++ users find it quite annoying when other standards hijack 
> C++ standard headers rather than defining new ones for their 
> purposes.

Reality (POSIX, et al mucking in C headers) is never as good as fantasy
(neatly and individually-packaged standards). Vendors are equally guilt,
sticking their own "stuff" into standard headers. The whole idea of a
"standard" is portability!

Arrgghh. Yes, this is a pet peeve of mine. Well fed, too. ;)

> So, the issue there (in C++ land) is radically different from that in
>  C land.  [First, have C users include standard headers instead of 
> prototyping "by hand" :-)]

Oh, some of us old C jockeys (I started on the PDP-8) think poorly of
header pollution. By the time C became a standard, every vendor had
their own "thing" going, and this evolved into a lack of respect for
standards integrity.

..Scott

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