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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:10:16 +0200
From:      Alexey Zelkin <phantom@ark.cris.net>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Floating-point conversions
Message-ID:  <20020314211016.B85834@ark.cris.net>
In-Reply-To: <200203141853.g2EIrt385522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@lcs.mit.edu on Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:53:55PM -0500
References:  <200203141853.g2EIrt385522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:53:55PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> I assume everyone is aware of <http://www.netlib.org/fp/>?  I think
> David Gay's `gdtoa.tgz' package may be of particular interest, since
> we do not presently support `long double' particularly well on any
> platform, and would need something like this for printf "%Lf"-like
> formats.

Yes. I have made some initial review of this package. It provides
much better support for many things. But I don't think that whole
package will be useful for FreeBSD. Unfortunatelly I still not
have a time to dig into this package and prepare it to import to
FreeBSD. :-(


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