From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 14:08:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716F21065670 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:08:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from mail-gh0-f182.google.com (mail-gh0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B92F8FC1D for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:08:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbz22 with SMTP id z22so6618ghb.13 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 07:08:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=sender:subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer :x-gm-message-state; bh=9GucgKH6ju2h0JjttrNBr0tp3ZUbvLSoZHVR0VDLpGc=; b=jCANNHFpC2hlJduODXAkNkMSxCgg/MXjptVb7ZH2Zx3ouS0zLnsPXdPiq8bCY9yiPU EHWd3rmjomfFOsB6OyuKvMDgtSg2xd7rf1WnPLdeZtAQE7G0TkyJTlxILjX3392D/zcR z7VYJip+o6ExuBpd1VRjC0IZbm5cu5KZjoTnDzPi4UxHVqNE+OBC3xMIXTGUJlzC2iiF hZOwg794qV0cinbnlRkE5jrqmViAi2lxsotatkNw9WByZOt2bL3uDkJqTG2jDZHqptyc wrq71eI0SwKncJwGpMM9hlyXlJVKeS2u9d43cq0CoL6tHHfsPbk8jY7NnIdP9Uq23MeR r5dw== Received: by 10.66.75.201 with SMTP id e9mr73865800paw.54.1341929323485; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 07:08:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.0.63] (50-78-194-198-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [50.78.194.198]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id of4sm29937159pbb.51.2012.07.10.07.08.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 10 Jul 2012 07:08:43 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Warner Losh Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <20120710134523.GA84396@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:08:37 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <4FC40449.3040602@missouri.edu> <20120528233035.GA77157@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4FC40DEA.8030703@missouri.edu> <20120529000756.GA77386@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4FC43C8F.5090509@missouri.edu> <20120529045612.GB4445@server.rulingia.com> <20120708124047.GA44061@zim.MIT.EDU> <210816F0-7ED7-4481-ABFF-C94A700A3EA0@bsdimp.com> <20120708233624.GA53462@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4FFBF16D.2030007@gwdg.de> <20120710134523.GA84396@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Steve Kargl X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkAf+TeQ90YhsgDye/KVIHCQNm9FFx1aukoHRClDAPpXTM1DAt2JN0CfeP5KtyMaLcPvb7/ Cc: Peter Jeremy , David Schultz , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:08:44 -0000 On Jul 10, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:10:05AM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote: >>=20 >> Do you think your version from=20 >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D152415 for expl() ld80=20= >> version could be the one getting into head? Would you be willing to=20= >> commit it? >=20 > That's a fairly early version of the ld80 expl(). > bde and das reviewed the code and made several > suggested changes. Cool. Send them to me and I'll move them into the tree. >> As far as I understand from discussions on R mailing list=20 >> (r-devel@r-project.org), they plan to reduce the emulation and/or=20 >> workaround of long and complex math functions for FreeBSD and other=20= >> systems with their next releases of R devel. So we could really need=20= >> some progress with our C99 conform math functions ;-) >=20 > I don't know R, and I don't understand what is meant > by 'they plan to reduce the emulation and/or workaround > of ... funtions'. R is a totally awesome statistical and graphics packaging. It means = they are dropping support for freeBSD because we don't have these = functions. That totally sucks, and to prevent that, I'd be willing to = commit the #define nonsense. Unless somebody has something better they = could forward me for integration... Warner=