Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:25:15 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Oliver Fromme <oliver@FreeBSD.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: standards/141705: libc lacks cexp (and friends) Message-ID: <200912171025.nBHAPFR3043135@sputnik1.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> Resent-Message-ID: <200912171030.nBHAU1UI012487@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 141705 >Category: standards >Synopsis: libc lacks cexp (and friends) >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-standards >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Dec 17 10:30:01 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gerald Pfeifer >Release: >Organization: >Environment: >Description: FreeBSD up to and include 8.0, from what I can tell, does not provide cexp and related functions as part of libc. This is in contrast to GNU libc, say, and prevents GCC leveraging some more advanced optimizations during compile time. In other words, some numeric code will run slower on FreeBSD than other systems due to the lack of cexp in libc. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Once this is fixed, GCC will need to be adjusted similarly, which I can help with. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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