From owner-freebsd-standards Mon Dec 10 18:14: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [216.254.138.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25FE37B416; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:14:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mike@localhost) by espresso.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBB2CeF28935; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:12:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:12:40 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: Alexey Zelkin Cc: Bill Fenner , standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib strtod.c Message-ID: <20011210211240.M1956@espresso.q9media.com> References: <200111301248.fAUCmV345233@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011130145450.B68788@ark.cris.net> <200112021729.JAA08989@windsor.research.att.com> <20011210115728.A11494@ark.cris.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011210115728.A11494@ark.cris.net>; from phantom@freebsd.org on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:57:28AM +0200 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Moved to -standards.] Alexey Zelkin writes: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:29:57AM -0800, Bill Fenner wrote: > > > > If you're interested, there's a significantly updated version of this > > code in netlib; http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/fp/ . It looks like > > there's even a generalized version that can handle long double; we'd > > need that if we wanted to support %Lf or strtold(). > > Thanks for link! I've found some interesting stuff there and > will bring it in after some time. > > BTW, there's difference between old and this versions of NetLib in > license. Should I update (change AT&T -> Lucent) ? Or something other ? I would like to see these vendor imported, if at all possible. As Bruce pointed out, they usually fix problems much soon than us. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message