Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:07:17 -0800 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: importing gdtoa Message-ID: <20030221200717.GA59752@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <200302211709.h1LH9lPu012789@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20030221085508.GA55786@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030221203916.A40755@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20030221101250.GA56852@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <200302211709.h1LH9lPu012789@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Thus spake Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>: > <<On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 02:12:50 -0800, David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> said: > > > The versions for computing intervals and approximations with > > rounding direction specified would be omitted from the build[1]. > > I would really prefer to see them officially supported, rather than > ignored. Sometimes you have to lead the standards, and I believe that > numerical methods types would actually like to have functions like > these available. The additional code required for any single > instantiation is quite small. This sounds reasonable, and it shouldn't pose any additional overhead on static binaries that don't use the interfaces. So the new plan is to add strtor[fdl], which allow one to specify rounding direction, and strtoI[fdl], which compute the interval containing the number. Both sets of routines would be weak symbols, declared in math.h only if __BSD_VISIBLE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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