From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 17:34:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB2AA16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:34:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout2.pacific.net.au (mailout2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500BB43D39 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:34:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.87])i0M1Yjtd012872; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:34:45 +1100 Received: from gamplex.bde.org (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) i0M1Yhp2021936; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:34:44 +1100 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:34:43 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Poul-Henning Kamp In-Reply-To: <14141.1074670873@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: <20040122122856.S10548@gamplex.bde.org> References: <14141.1074670873@critter.freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: historical stuff in math(3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:34:49 -0000 On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Isn't all the vax-D format related stuff math(3) getting pretty old ? It provides some interesting historical context, and no replacements for anything in math(3) have been written. The main problems with math(3) is that almost all of it is about the old BSD implementation so almost none of it except generalities about IEEE format applies directly, and it doesn't say this anywhere. Bruce