From owner-freebsd-standards Mon Dec 30 17:11:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C60EB37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:11:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-232-220-15.client.attbi.com [12.232.220.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D98A43E4A for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:11:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBV1BWZs002584; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:11:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gBV1BW4Y002583; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:11:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:11:32 -0800 From: David Schultz To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any libm maintainer (was Math changes in Mac OS X) Message-ID: <20021231011132.GA2471@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021230171702.87632.qmail@web13401.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021230171702.87632.qmail@web13401.mail.yahoo.com> 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 Thus spake Pedro F. Giffuni : > And he OK'd us merging their changes in libm, "It's > not like Apple needs to do anything specific to > "donate" it, it's already essentially donated". In > fact..he sent me a copy of their libm. > > Anyone want to have a look at it??, or should we > reimplement this stuff from scratch... just for the > sake of diversity?? ;). The FreeBSD libm is in a horrible state of disrepair. Many C99 features are unimplemented, some areas have a poor distinction between MD and MI bits, there's still some VAX cruft lying around, and parts of the library are scattered among several directories. NetBSD has done a lot to clean up and rearrange the code, but there's still a long way to go. If Apple has reimplemented libm, I'm sure there would be interest in it. Bill Fenner was working on some of the C99 math stuff last I heard, so you might want to run it by him. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message