Log Library - How is it done in the library code?
Henry Spencer
henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Fri Mar 22 03:08:30 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar21.000655.28999 at bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> kym at bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell) writes:
>>... There are *two* separate facilities that
>>are relevant, -f68881 and the inlining facility. They're not the same thing.
>
>Yes I may be confused. The following comes from the man page ...
>
>-f68881 Generate in-line code for Motorola
> MC68881 floating-point processor ...
However, this doesn't generate in-line code for library functions, only for
things like addition and multiplication. There is a separate inlining
facility for library code, which is what's wanted if you're trying to
evaluate the performance of log(). See the discussion of the .il suffix.
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