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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:12:40 -0500
From:      Mike Barcroft <mike@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexey Zelkin <phantom@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, standards@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib strtod.c
Message-ID:  <20011210211240.M1956@espresso.q9media.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011210115728.A11494@ark.cris.net>; from phantom@freebsd.org on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:57:28AM %2B0200
References:  <200111301248.fAUCmV345233@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011130145450.B68788@ark.cris.net> <200112021729.JAA08989@windsor.research.att.com> <20011210115728.A11494@ark.cris.net>

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Alexey Zelkin <phantom@freebsd.org> 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

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