On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

> 
> 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...)

This is what I now understand Gerhard to mean.

Friendly Regards
Sergio Masci

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