On 17 January 2013 17:31, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 17 January 2013 17:29, Mischa Baars <mjbaars1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Does that mean that you are satisfied with the 'if / else' as is, and that >> you also do not need an improvement of the arctangent in glibc? > > You're confused. This is nothing to do with glibc. > > The "distribution" is the tarball of GCC sources. The "components" > are the separate tarballs that used to be made available for > gcc-core-x.y.z.tar.gz, gcc-c++-x.y.z.tar.gz, gcc-fortran-x.y.z.tar.gz, > etc. but these are no longer made available, only the gcc-x.y.z.tar.gz > tarball containing everything.
For example, compare ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.6.0/ to ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.7.0/