C optimizer

[John Woods]

In article <9648 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> Note also that ANSI C implementations can
> 	#define	cos(x)	__intrinsic_cos(x)
> or something along those lines, to allow the compiler to generate
> in-line code rather than an actual function call for standard
> functions.  There actually is floating-point hardware with SQRT
> support; I don't know about COS.

The 68881 chip has FCOS, FSIN, and (gasp) FSINCOS which simultaneously
computes cos() and sin() of the same argument.  A sufficiently clever
compiler could potentially make great use of that.
 
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