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Date:      Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:50:23 -0800
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include fnmatch.h
Message-ID:  <20031217205023.GA83523@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20031217204212.GA31706@madman.celabo.org>
References:  <200312170256.hBH2uSOn062945@repoman.freebsd.org> <200312170254.hBH2sTJx062816@repoman.freebsd.org> <20031217132252.GA6018@madman.celabo.org> <20031217133953.GD60229@elvis.mu.org> <20031217140201.GB6018@madman.celabo.org> <483CA6BC-30CB-11D8-AAAC-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com> <20031217204212.GA31706@madman.celabo.org>

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:42:12PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:57:45AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 
> > On Dec 17, 2003, at 6:02 AM, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> > 
> > >The only reason I brought it up is because the absence of FNM_NOSYS on
> > >BSD for the past decade apparently hasn't been noticed until now (why
> > >now?), seeming to imply that there aren't any such applications.
> > 
> > Glad you asked.  It's basically my intention to bring FreeBSD's headers 
> > and libraries as close to conformance to Unix03 as I can over the next 
> > few months (years?), 
> 
> Excellent!  Then probably we'll see you on freebsd-standards.
> 

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The oldest open PR is i386/105, which bemoans the sorry state
of libm with respect to proper error/exception handling.  AFAIK,
this issue affects all *BSD.  I glanced at the opendarwin source
tree and noted that some work has been done in this area.  Is 
this on your radar?

-- 
Steve



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