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Date:      Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:29:13 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148
Message-ID:  <201206011029.13865.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgncsBv0rrorpg-C8Ay0eMuon=XL4gksFO%2BDARPCOxz5Tw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4FC30090.4070003@gwdg.de> <201205311145.15454.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAF6rxgncsBv0rrorpg-C8Ay0eMuon=XL4gksFO%2BDARPCOxz5Tw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Friday, June 01, 2012 1:55:10 am Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 31 May 2012 08:45, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > I do think we should provide something in ports as an interim solution.
> > There are other 3rd party applications looking to drop FreeBSD support
> > because we are missing APIs that almost all other OS's have.  I'm fine
> > if the interim lives in ports and that we don't import substandard
> > routines into the base.  I would even be fine with calling it
> > /usr/local/lib/libm_inaccurate.so.  However, I do think we need an option.
> 
> Do we have a wiki page listing the functions in libm we are missing?
> Having some kind of place to track progress and figure out what
> exactly is needed is the first step to getting these APIs into shape.
> 
> Also, are there BSD licensed naive implementations of these functions
> we can use? Would it be okay to have slow, but accurate versions of
> these functions as a stopgap?

Peter Jeremy more or less has a stopgap already ready judging by the comments 
in the thread thus far.

-- 
John Baldwin



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