Re: NewFloatMgr: Never Got Answer

[Jason Dawes]

At 08:54 PM 4/12/99 -0700, Mark Nudelman wrote:
>"Michael S. Davis" wrote:
>Don't feel bad, I'm getting confused by the responses to your email
>too.  My experience has been the same as yours:
>I can use floats and doubles without NewFloatMgr.h.
>I can use MathLib without NewFloatMgr.h.
>
>So my belief is, NewFloatMgr.h is not necessary.  If someone wants to
>convince me otherwise, you'll need to explain why my app works without
>it.

Because it's an app - you're linking in [the runtime] libraries which
include fun things like __lmul, which do floating point multiplication.  If
you don't link libraries such as these in you'll get link errors.  Surprise
surprise, you don't get link errors if you use NewFloatMgr.