From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 2 11:35:23 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A766C37B405; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 11:35:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA18514; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 06:35:12 +1100 Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 06:35:27 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: To: Bill Fenner Cc: , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib strtod.c In-Reply-To: <200112021729.JAA08989@windsor.research.att.com> Message-ID: <20011203062435.C9600-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Bill Fenner wrote: > If you're interested, there's a significantly updated version of this > code in netlib; http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/fp/ . It looks like > there's even a generalized version that can handle long double; we'd > need that if we wanted to support %Lf or strtold(). Most of our local changes were in the vendor version 3-4 years before we made them, sigh. Summary of some relevant parts of changes.gz from the above URL: - Jan 21 1993: apparently the long -> Long hack to support systems with 32 bit ints and 64 bit longs - Jul 6 1996: unsigned long -> ULong - Dec 17 1996: threads support Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message