------- Comment #23 from rob1weld at aol dot com 2007-06-16 18:12 ------- > Comment #17 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-06-13 11:30 [reply] ------- > >>> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Florent de Dinechin wrote: >>> We are the maintainers of the crlibm project, which aims at developping a >>> modern, correctly rounded version of the libm licenced under the LGPL. >>> Project homepage is https://lipforge.ens-lyon.fr/projects/crlibm/ >>> >>> I feel that this project is now achieving sufficient maturity to be a >>> candidate for gradual inclusion in the glibc. I would appreciate any >>> feedback >>> on this question, and probably some practical advice. >>> >>The following are just my views, I don't speak for the glibc maintainers. >>First, I expect it will be necessary to follow the FSF copyright >>assignment process. While various parts of glibc at present, including > ... (many lines deleted) >>The glibc bug database <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> has 57 open >>bugs in the "math" component, mostly suspended until someone comes forward >>with patches for them. Perhaps your new implementations fix some of them?
> I previously suggested to the crlibm authors that they consider assigning > it to the FSF for contribution to libgcc-math > <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2007-02/msg00010.html>. I don't know > if anything has happened on that since then. I guess not. When someone offers you something tell them that. ;) I did follow the libgcc-math thread. The glibc people refused the libgcc-math permission to use glibc code in libgcc-math. Numerous patches were backed out leaving little left. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-05/msg00408.html -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32180
