> I don't see the point. libm functions are much more difficult than
> softint/softfloat, just the plain amount of math knowledge necessary
> to create anything usable is scary. Trying to create our own
> implementation of things that have been properly implemented over and
> over and publicly available under BSD licence is, IMO, a very bad
> idea.

I've a branch somewhere with a full BSD-licensed libm implementation
ported to HelenOS.

I was not very satisfied by the end result (I had to disable the -O2
optimization level to get rid of some dereferencing of type punned
pointer warnings) but if anyone is interested I could publish it.

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Maurizio Lombardi

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