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Date:      Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:54:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@time.cdrom.com, jkh@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf
Message-ID:  <199503210554.VAA29561@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503210519.PAA04689@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 21, 95 03:19:37 pm

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> It's hardly worth the trouble of fixing this.  msun should become libm.
> If you want to support the old library then everything should be
> renamed:
> 
> 	msun -> libm
> 	libm -> libmould (sic)
No.  I don't care if libm is called msun from now till the national
deficit is paid.  This is pointless, and it would screw up the cvs-tree.


> We also need dynamic support for the i387 functions.  -DHAVE_FPU is no
> good because it can't be used for the distribution libraries.  Something
> like
> 
> 	if (_have_i387)
> 		result = _i387_pow(x, y);
> 	else
> 		result = __ieee754_pow(x, y);
> 
> would add less time overhead than shared linkage.

Now this makes sense!

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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