On Jul 14, 2009, at 8:21 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> If I had meant intrinsics, I'd havewritten about intrinsics.

> I said that if a library is a /standard/ library (and I have  
> mentioned this word "standard" a few times; you didn't seem to pick  
> up on this),

What exactly do you see as the difference between an "intrinsic"  
function and a Standard library function?  I mean sin() is a standard  
library function in C, but an intrinsic function in fortran/pascal/ 
etc, right?

Are you saying that a C compiler could understand that "sin()" is  
standard and generate straight math processor instructions (intel FP  
has had a FSIN instruction since forever) rather than a library call?   
(assuming that it "knows" that the instructions and the library are  
supposed to generate the same results...)

BillW

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