Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!amdahl!pyramid!prls!philabs!gcm!dc From: dc@gcm (Dave Caswell) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Should I convert FORTRAN code to C? Message-ID: <522@white.gcm> Date: 11 Jun 88 13:46:35 GMT References: <2742@utastro.UUCP> <225800036@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: dc@white.UUCP (Dave Caswell) Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Greenwich, CT Lines: 19 In article <225800036@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: . .I do believe that all this concern over functions in C is misplaced. .atan, atan2(y,x), sinh, cosh, tanh, exp, log, log10, pow(x,y), sqrt, .and a few lesser ones. These certainly CAN be made inline if the compiler .is smart enough. On my PC, I found after a quick check that only fabs .was inline, but I didnt test all of them. I am ASSUMING of course that Is it true that some compilers generate inline code for strcpy, fabs and a host of other functions? How does the compiler know that I will be linking with the standard library? Does ANSI C allows compilers to "know" what these functions mean? I wasn't aware that any of those functions were part of the C language. Specifically, does my SUN cc reserve any of these symbols? Please respond by email. -- Dave Caswell Greenwich Capital Markets uunet!philabs!gcm!dc If it could mean something, I wouldn't have posted about it! -- Brian Case