On Thursday, August 08, 2013 02:17:26 PM Maurizio Lombardi wrote:
> > 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.

What implementation is it based on? FreeBSD?

> 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.

I'm interested.

Cheers,
Zbigniew

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