Rainer Jung wrote: > On 03.01.2009 02:02, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >> [email protected] wrote: >>> Author: rjung >>> Date: Fri Jan 2 16:58:11 2009 >>> New Revision: 730881 >>> >>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=730881&view=rev >>> Log: >>> We need to link only ab against libm (because of >>> sqrt()). >> >> Uhm - sure that mod_status and a few others didn't also need this >> on some platforms due to double/float arithmetic (statistics?) > > It's always hard to be sure for all platforms, but at least it works on > Solaris and Linux, and I can't find any libm symbols in mod_status. > > The floats there are only used in simple divisions and printf. > > As I understand it, Windows builds are not influenced by these changes, > because they use a separate build apparatus?
Correct, but if I remember right, manipulating long long's into doubles on solaris 8 and several other operating systems involves libm stub helpers.
