From owner-cvs-etc Mon Mar 20 21:55:37 1995 Return-Path: cvs-etc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA00233 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:55:37 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA00224; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:55:27 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA15769; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:55:24 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id VAA29561; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:54:29 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503210554.VAA29561@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:54:29 -0800 (PST) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@time.cdrom.com, jkh@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199503210519.PAA04689@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 21, 95 03:19:37 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 848 Sender: cvs-etc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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 -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'