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- From: schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Don't use GCC complex types (was: Fractals)
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 12:50:18 GMT
- Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
- Message-ID: <4hk1ma$473u@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
- References: <4hhv43$49i@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> <4hibr0INN7s1@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <4hibr0INN7s1@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>,
- Kazimir Kylheku <c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
- >In article <4hhv43$49i@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca>,
- >Naftali Sturm <yu114405@yorku.ca> wrote:
- >>How do you program fractals in C?
-
- [how to compute fractals]
-
- >The GNU C compiler has a native complex type, but this is not part of the
- >standard C language.
-
- and should not be used at all due to heavy brokenness of
- GNU CC's complex type support. I submitted several bug reports
- to the GCC maintainers and had some discussion with them.
-
- Quote of an email I got from Richard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>:
-
- RK: I think that complex support in GCC is so broken that this is *way*
- RK: down on the list. My feeling is almost to take it out of the
- RK: manual altogether.
-
- Bye, Jens
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