Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:16:34 +1100 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: historical stuff in math(3) Message-ID: <20040122021634.GB54394@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20040122122856.S10548@gamplex.bde.org> References: <14141.1074670873@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040122122856.S10548@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:34:43PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > 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. I wrote a replacement manpage that summarized the math library in a similar way to how stdio(3) summarizes stdio. It's attached to PR bin/35070. I seem to remember you objecting to the removal of some of the VAX-specific details and not replacing them with an equally detailed description of IEEE FP, but I've lost the mail. Tim
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