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Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc)

From Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com>
Subject Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc)
Date 2011-06-02 22:16 +0100
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On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:52:35 -0700, David Mathog wrote:

> Since this is OT I will keep it very brief.  C code that compiles
> cleanly on linux with
> 
>   gcc -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic -lm -o test test.c
> 
> has problems on Solaris 8 (Sparc) with gcc 4.3.3, where it cannot find
> the definitions of NAN, FP_NAN, FP_INFINITE, or the prototypes (and
> most likely the functions, if some of this wasn't an error that kept
> it from getting that far) for fmax, fmin, isinf, isnormal, and round.
> 
> Anybody know why this happens, or better yet, how to work around it?

These definitions/declarations belong in <math.h>, which is part of the
standard library (libc) rather than gcc. Linux uses GNU libc, Solaris has
its own version (which may or may not support C99; from your report, it
appears not to).

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OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 13:52 -0700
  Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-06-02 22:16 +0100
  Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 14:18 -0700
    Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 14:37 -0700
      Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-03 09:59 +1200
        Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 15:18 -0700
          Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-03 10:35 +1200
            Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 16:01 -0700
              Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 06:45 -0700
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 12:13 -0700
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-06-03 21:35 +0200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-04 08:48 +1200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-06-03 23:28 +0100
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) gordonb.myhxj@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-06-04 00:32 -0500
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-06-04 08:06 +0200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) gordonb.c5zg9@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-06-04 22:03 -0500
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-05 15:47 +1200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-06-05 09:48 +0200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-05 20:22 +1200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-06-05 15:59 +0200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 09:09 -0400
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-06-06 15:24 +0200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 10:17 -0700
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-07 07:46 +1200
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 09:35 -0700
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-09 11:18 -0700
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 12:52 -0700
                Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-10 09:14 +1200
            Re: OT: missing C99 math pieces in gcc 4.x on Solaris 8 (sparc) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-02 16:04 -0700

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