From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: abs/fabs/labs not builtin in C++
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:30:00 -0000
Message-id: <19971210103118.61638@dot.cygnus.com>
References: <vyzyb1tcxne.fsf@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00593.html

On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 11:15:01AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Why are abs, labs and fabs not builtins in C++?

Don't know about labs/fabs, but I believe the std c++ library
overloads abs.  That's not to say that we can't define the
overloads as builtins as well, but...


r~