keith bierman wrote:
> ????? ????????????:
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>> Can you merge libsunmath into libm?
>>
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> 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 back in would not be overly helpful.
>
> I suppose, now that there are linker filters and such, that careful
> users could manage with the merge ... but the point of the exercise was
> to make it /easy/ for people to stick to Standards ... not make it easy
> for them to write non-portable code.
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?
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
