From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Nov  9 22:13:42 1995
Subject: gcc __complex__ data types
From: "Wonkoo Kim" <wkim+ at pitt dot edu>
To: "Octave Users" <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: "Jim Van Zandt" <jrv at mbunix dot mitre dot org>, niles@axp745.gsfc.nasa.gov
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 95 22:31:05 -0500

> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 95 20:01:00 -0500
> From: "Jim Van Zandt" <jrv at mbunix dot mitre dot org>
> To: "Wonkoo Kim" <wkim+ at pitt dot edu>
> Cc: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
> Subject: Re: Octave C++ libs ported to Borland C++ for OS/2
> 
> Wonkoo Kim writes:
> >It's nice to know.  Though this is not a C forum:
> >Can I convert a complex data to its complex conjugate with a builtin
> >keyword?  Where can I find more about complex data type?
> 
> This is the first I've seen of them too.
> 
> I grabbed this from the .info file on gcc:

Thanks for your information.

As Rick Niles (niles at axp745 dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov) posted:
>
>I'm a g77 alpha tester and the offical word is complex numbers in GCC
>are way broken and will remain so for sometime to come.  In has really
>messed up g77 which currently relies on GCC for complex numbers.
>
>	Rick Niles.

I don't know what was broken in gcc's complex data support.  I played a 
bit. It looks like normal operators are okay but not for math functions.
Is this the reason why gcc's __complex__ data support is considered a 
way of broken?  Do you know a bit more detail about what are "broken"?

Thanks.

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