[Python-Dev] Linux Python linking with G++? (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 18:19:14 CEST 2005

[Michael Hudson]

--with-fpectl, for example. Does anyone lurking here actually use that, know what it does and require the functionality? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Tim, explains what it intends to do]

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[Michael]

But do you use it? I know what it intends to do too,

Then why ask what it does? You're asking a lot of questions lately that you're irked by when you get an answer <0.9 wink>.

but I don't use it. The questions I asked were in the order they were for a reason.

No, I don't use it -- last I looked seriously (which was years ago), it didn't work on Windows. I don't know of anyone who does use it. The functionality is highly desired by some numeric programmers, in some parts of some of their apps, although they'd like finer control (like don't gripe about divide-by-0 but do gripe about overflow in function A, and don't gripe about anything in function B, and only gripe about invalid operation in the 23rd line of function C).

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