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To: "Kean Johnston" <jkj@sco.com>
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Subject: Re: __builtin_generic
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From: Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 18:49:00 -0000
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"Kean Johnston" <jkj@sco.com> writes:

> I doubt I explained this propperly so consider this
> example:
> 
> __builtin_generic (x, "ld:cosld;f:cosf;:cos");
> 
> If 'x' is of type long double ("ld"), then cosld() will be
> called. If it is of type float ("f") then cosf() will be
> called. Otherwise, for any other type, simple cos() will be called.

Thhis should be doable with __builtin_types_compatible_p, which
already exists in recent gccs.

-- 
	Falk