Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ic.Berkeley.EDU!faustus From: faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Should I convert FORTRAN code to C? Message-ID: <3946@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Date: 15 Jun 88 21:35:28 GMT References: <238@chem.ucsd.EDU> <2742@utastro.UUCP> <225800036@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <522@white.gcm> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu Lines: 5 The best reason NOT to allow a compiler to expand standard functions in-line is that you can't substitute your own to fix a bug in the standard version. I've had to do this a number of times with bug-prone functions like floor() (too many versions round towards zero instead of down). Wayne