Hi, It cant be not all processors have floating point unit's Therefor it cannot be in the main standard libary > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-c-programming-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-c- > programming-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Colannino > Sent: 11 June 2006 18:58 > To: Linux C Programming List > Subject: Re: Undefined reference to 'fmod' > > Glynn Clements wrote: > > > No, fmod() is in libm, so you have to add -lm to the link command. > > > > As a general rule, anything which uses <math.h> has to link against > > libm. > > Interesting. Compiling with the argument -lm fixed my problem. That > leads me to another question: why are the functions found in math.h in a > separate library? I would have thought that all functions found in the > standard C library would be in glibc (The K&R book I'm reading said that > math.h is a part of the standard library.) > > James > -- > My blog: http://www.crazydrclaw.com/ > My homepage: http://james.colannino.org/ > > "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving > wordy evidence of the fact." --George Eliot > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-c- > programming" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
