Bootstrap difficulties on powerpc-apple-darwin6.8 (Mac OS X 10.2.8)

Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com
Tue Sep 28 12:58:00 GMT 2004


Peter O'Gorman writes:
 > it seemed a little strange to be redifining sqrt. I might have a
 > look, but probably not :)

This confuses many people.  The routines are in libgcj because not all
systems had sufficiently accurate routines for elementary functions.
This is perhaps less impoertant than it used to be.  However, a linker
shouldn't complain if it sees the same symbol in two different
libraries.

Andrew.



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