[tools-compilers] Calling all libsunmath users

2009-10-23 Thread keith bierman
Alan Coopersmith: > > > Wouldn't it be more consistent to follow the libc model, where all the > functions, both standard and non-standard, are in the same .so, but the > function prototypes are visible or hidden based on the #defines set? > Memory can be a fickle thing, but I believe libsunmath p

[tools-compilers] Calling all libsunmath users

2009-10-23 Thread Chris Quenelle
Some background is here, for Sun internal people. LSARC/1992/005 Bundled libm packaging Dean Stantonclosed approved 7/7/93 Unpublished LSARC/1993/668 SPARCompilers 3.0.1 Evan Adams closed approved summary Unpublished I suspect things have changed more than a little in the last

[tools-compilers] Calling all libsunmath users

2009-10-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
keith bierman wrote: > ? : >> >> Can you merge libsunmath into libm? >> >> > Sun certainly could. However, that would be full circle. libm was split > into libm and libsunmath so that purely Standards conformat programs > could link only against libm and know that they were standard

[tools-compilers] Calling all libsunmath users

2009-10-23 Thread ольга крыжановская
Can you merge libsunmath into libm? On 10/23/09, Chris Quenelle wrote: > libsunmath is a library that is included with the Sun compilers > in both static and dynamic formats. > > I've been told that with C99 and the new libm functions, > there are very few reasons to be using libsunmath anymor

[tools-compilers] Calling all libsunmath users

2009-10-23 Thread keith bierman
? : > > Can you merge libsunmath into libm? > > Sun certainly could. However, that would be full circle. libm was split into libm and libsunmath so that purely Standards conformat programs could link only against libm and know that they were standard. Putting all of libsunmath

[tools-compilers] Calling all libsunmath users

2009-10-23 Thread Chris Quenelle
? wrote: > Can you merge libsunmath into libm? > If we could identify the useful functions, we could move those into libm. Or some other more appropriate library. --chris

[tools-compilers] Calling all libsunmath users

2009-10-22 Thread Chris Quenelle
libsunmath is a library that is included with the Sun compilers in both static and dynamic formats. I've been told that with C99 and the new libm functions, there are very few reasons to be using libsunmath anymore. I'd love to have feedback from libsunmath users on whether this might be true or n