From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 28 21:19:24 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395991065673 for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 21:19:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@missouri.edu) Received: from wilberforce.math.missouri.edu (wilberforce.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFDCF8FC0A for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 21:19:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (wilberforce.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by wilberforce.math.missouri.edu (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q4SLJMB9038862; Mon, 28 May 2012 16:19:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@missouri.edu) Message-ID: <4FC3EBDA.2080502@missouri.edu> Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 16:19:22 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kargl References: <4FC30090.4070003@gwdg.de> <4D8CF7D2-CBEE-438E-A9E7-9C47A8892622@FreeBSD.org> <4FC36FE1.9080908@gwdg.de> <4FC38B81.6000302@gwdg.de> <4FC3A154.8030702@missouri.edu> <20120528203159.GA76340@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20120528203159.GA76340@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Mon, 28 May 2012 21:19:24 -0000 On 05/28/2012 03:31 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:01:24AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >> One thing that could be done is to have a "math/cephes" port that adds >> the extra C99 math functions. This is already done in the math/sage >> port, using a rather clever patch due to Peter Jeremy, that applies to >> the cephes code. >> >> What it would do is to create a /usr/local/lib/libm.so that would >> provide the extra functions not currently included in /lib/libm.so, and >> then link in /lib/libm.so as well. It would also create its own >> /usr/local/include/math.h and /usr/local/include/complex.h as well. >> >> What do you guys think? Do you want someone to start experimenting with >> this idea? I could do it, but probably not for a little while. >> > > This is a horrible, horrible, horrible idea. Have you > looked at the cephes code, particularly the complex.h > functions? I have only taken a very cursory look. What should I specifically look for in seeing that the code is bad?