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Re: obnoxious "not implemented" messages
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
- Subject: Re: obnoxious "not implemented" messages
- From: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 18:52:55 +0100
- cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
>The stub long-double math functions print an obnoxious message in
>addition to returning ENOSYS. Why is this done? It doesn't help the
I imagine because people don't usually expect the math functions to fail and
so don't bother checking for errors like they might for system calls.
p.