[comp.sys.atari.st.tech] gcc, pml

hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (12/21/90)

In article <1990Dec20.194506.21478@watmath.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:
>In article 

>I have been experimenting with GCC and have found the Portable
>Math Libaries PML and PML16.

>My questions are:
>	why are there two?
>	what is the difference between them?

>Thank you.

Two questions, just 1 answer - gcc uses 32 bit ints by default. The 68000
works best with 16 bit ints. The PML16 library was compiled with the -mshort
option, and is for linking with other objects compiled that way. They will
typically be smaller and faster than the 32 bit default libraries. They also
typically cause massive headaches when porting Unix code to the ST, but you
have to expect problems, eh?
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