[lug] math.h Weirdness

[Zan Lynx]

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 07:09 -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
> Thanks Lori,
> 
> The sqrt example listed in that article was exactly the situation I
> encountered. Using -lm did the trick. Funny thing though; with some code 
> I write I don't need to explicitly link to the math library, but on this
> module, I had to or it wouldn't resolve sqrt(). 
> 
> Also, I found that the protoype for sqrt _is_ in math.h. It's immplemented
> as a macro in bits/mathcalls.h and included.
> 
> Thanks for the help!

Often, if you compile with -O2 or -O3, and have a GCC that has been
distro-optimized for i686 or are using a Athlon64 or Xeon or Core2 in
64-bit mode, or if you specify -march/-mcpu yourself, then the math
functions will compile directly to machine code, and no library is
needed.  Sometimes you also need -ffast-math.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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