On May 3, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Don Clugston wrote: > On 03/05/12 16:13, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> >> >> Good ones. In fact I even discounted them from this discussion because >> I'd already considered them gone. Walter agreed that I don't mention >> them in TDPL, with the intent to have them peter out. >> >> One good step right now would be to remove NCEG operators from the >> online documentation. Later on, we'll consider them an accept-invalid >> bug :o). > > Well, they are also used in druntime, in core.stdc.math > > BTW I *hate* that module, I don't know why it exists. Even worse, it seems to > be growing -- people are adding more things to it. > Practically everything in there has a better implementation in std.math.
core.stdc.math corresponds to C99's math.h and is there as a part of the standard C interface. It should only contain the required C99 prototypes, and in some cases functions if the C implementation is a macro. If there is anything nonstandard in there, I'm not aware of it.
