> Philip S Tellis forced the electrons to say:
> > Thanks, it worked. My question is, why do we have to explicitly tell it
> > to use the library (and why is the math library called libm.a and not
> > libmath.a)?
>
> Since the functions in the math library use extensive floating point
> computations (most of them sum up convergent serieses to evaluate
> their return values, especially the trigonometric and hyperbolic
> functions), they were kept in a separate library in the early compilers
> which was linked in only if the need arose.
True .... To hot for a compiler to handle ... wot does it do ... create a
library and use it during run-time
Unlike DOs-based compilers (TC etc) which have the library already linked
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