On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 09:46:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What versions of gcc produce the built-in functions?
2.95 and previous. In 2.96 somewhere we fixed a bug that
automatically prototypes these builtin functions for you;
ie with current code you get an undeclared function warning.
> And does it do so for *all* platforms? (i.e., PPC, Alpha,
> IA64, etc., etc., etc.)
Yes. The thing about abs, though, is that it's "int abs(int)"
which does naughty things with longs on 64-bit targets. You're
much better off writing (x < 0 ? -x : x) directly.
r~
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