Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:11:32 -0800 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any libm maintainer (was Math changes in Mac OS X) Message-ID: <20021231011132.GA2471@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20021230171702.87632.qmail@web13401.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021230171702.87632.qmail@web13401.mail.yahoo.com>
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Thus spake Pedro F. Giffuni <giffunip@yahoo.com>: > And he OK'd us merging their changes in libm, "It's > not like Apple needs to do anything specific to > "donate" it, it's already essentially donated". In > fact..he sent me a copy of their libm. > > Anyone want to have a look at it??, or should we > reimplement this stuff from scratch... just for the > sake of diversity?? ;). The FreeBSD libm is in a horrible state of disrepair. Many C99 features are unimplemented, some areas have a poor distinction between MD and MI bits, there's still some VAX cruft lying around, and parts of the library are scattered among several directories. NetBSD has done a lot to clean up and rearrange the code, but there's still a long way to go. If Apple has reimplemented libm, I'm sure there would be interest in it. Bill Fenner was working on some of the C99 math stuff last I heard, so you might want to run it by him. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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