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Assume C89 or later for math functions.

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Message #19 received at 12381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 12381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Assume C89 or later for math functions.
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:20:00 -0400

On 9/8/2012 11:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 08:31:21 -0700
>> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
>> CC: 12381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org

>> matherr was a problem back in the 1980s, but it's been obsolete for
>> decades.  Platforms that still provide it have it as an SVID option
>> that is disabled by default, because it was clearly a mistake.
>
> I'm not sure this is so universally correct.  E.g., what about Cygwin?
> Ken, can you tell?  AFAIR, Cygwin uses fdlibm, which used to invoke
> matherr by default.

Sorry, but this discussion is over my head.  Is there a C program I 
could run that would answer your question?

Ken

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