Chris, could you reopen the bug, please? I think Glenn has provided enough details why we need it and other programming languages like perl would benefit from it well, too.
Olga 2010/5/26 ольга крыжановская <[email protected]>: > Thank you for filing the bug. > > I see it has been closed as will not fix. Why? AFAIK all C99 functions > must be available as float, double and long double functions, or not? > > Olga > > 2010/5/24 Chris Quenelle <[email protected]>: >> If you are requesting general additions to libm, that sounds like it's >> almost completely unrelated to phasing out libsunmath. >> It would be helpful to start a new email thread, and introduce >> your new topic with a summary. >> >> The email that you responded to was asking for a set of >> libsunmath functions that existing libsunmath users found >> useful. It was not a general request for libm RFEs. >> >> I have filed a libm RFE for you. >> 6955163 request for additional libm functions >> >> It should be visible on bugs.sun.com within a few days. >> >> --chris >> >> >> >> ольга крыжановская wrote: >>> Useful functions would be long double versions of the existing C99 >>> functions. We (the ksh93 integration team) found that several >>> functions are missing in libm and require to add substitute wrappers. >>> Using libsunmath is unfortunately not an option because it breaks the >>> gcc build of ON. >>> Currently these function are either not available in libm, not >>> available in versions taking long double as argument or not available >>> as function pointers: >>> finite >>> fpclassify >>> isfinite >>> isgreater >>> isgreaterequal >>> isinf >>> isless >>> islessequal >>> islessgreater >>> isnormal >>> issubnormal >>> isunordered >>> iszero >>> signbit >>> >>> Olga >>> >>> 2009/10/23 Chris Quenelle <[email protected]>: >>>> ольга крыжановская 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > > -- > , _ _ , > { \/`o;====- Olga Kryzhanovska -====;o`\/ } > .----'-/`-/ [email protected] \-`\-'----. > `'-..-| / http://twitter.com/fleyta \ |-..-'` > /\/\ Solaris/BSD//C/C++ programmer /\/\ > `--` `--` > -- , _ _ , { \/`o;====- Olga Kryzhanovska -====;o`\/ } .----'-/`-/ [email protected] \-`\-'----. `'-..-| / http://twitter.com/fleyta \ |-..-'` /\/\ Solaris/BSD//C/C++ programmer /\/\ `--` `--` _______________________________________________ tools-compilers mailing list [email protected]
