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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
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Subject: Re: Calling conventions (particularly 32-bit ARM)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:20:43 -0000 (UTC)
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Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> schrieb:

> POSIX leaves it up to the programmer to decide.  If the
> programmer desires EDOM or ERANGE, they set the
> appropriate bit in math_errhandling before calling the
> sin et alia functions.

That makes SIMD-style vectorization of transcendentals...
interesting.

Hmmm... looking around, it seems that C++ has the same requirement
since C++11.  One more reason why Fortran is a better language
for numerics than C++...