On 4 April 2011 17:20, Michael Hennebry <henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Ian Malone wrote:
>
>> I think there have been suggestions that it's time to start having
>> libm linked in gcc by default as the space saving (its purpose a very
>> long time ago) is tiny.
>

> That is rather part of the idea behind a library:
> You don't link what you don't need.
> A user that desires can replace libm with
> something better for his purpose.
>

Yes, but what would you suggest for 'something better' with x86_64
linux as the target which is typically dynamically linked? libm is a
bit of a historical anomaly as it supplies functions which are part of
the C standard, but not in the standard library.

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imalone
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