From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: abs/fabs/labs not builtin in C++
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:58:00 -0000
Message-id: <199712101709.JAA15675@atrus.synopsys.com>
References: <vyzyb1tcxne.fsf@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00600.html

> Why are abs, labs and fabs not builtins in C++?  A comment in cp/decl.c
> claims they don't work with libg++, but i could not find any problems
> after enabling them, and libg++ is obsolete anyway.

If this is done, we need to make sure to provide all the proper overloads.
Essentially there should be an abs() for every builtin numeric type.