On 2023-10-05 13:06, Bruno Haible wrote:
Hi Paul,
+ if test $gl_cv_func_isnand_no_libm = yes || test "$ISNAND_LIBM"; then
This doesn't look right:
* If $ISNAND_LIBM is empty, it executes
test ''
which is invalid in at least some version of 'test'.
Which version would that be
On 2023-10-02 04:33, Bruno Haible wrote:
But your portable code appears to produce fairly decent x86_64 assembly
code as well.
Thanks for your fixes. Yes, the goal was portability rather than saving
a few instructions. A high-performance implementation of totalorder
would need help from the c
Paul Eggert wrote:
> The win for GNU sort, once I get around to fixing totalorder's -lm
> dependency
Why would that be a problem? The average run time of a 'sort' invocation
is long enough that an additional link dependency to libm shouldn't matter.
'sort' already links against libcrypto:
$ nm s
On 2023-10-06 19:33, Bruno Haible wrote:
Why would that be a problem? The average run time of a 'sort' invocation
is long enough that an additional link dependency to libm shouldn't matter.
We've avoided -lm in the past, I think more to avoid the dependency.
If you really want to minimize the
