Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 12:19:54 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-numerics@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Subject: Re: Complex arg-trig functions Message-ID: <20120805191954.GA50379@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <501EC015.3000808@missouri.edu> References: <5017111E.6060003@missouri.edu> <501C361D.4010807@missouri.edu> <20120804165555.X1231@besplex.bde.org> <501D51D7.1020101@missouri.edu> <20120805030609.R3101@besplex.bde.org> <501D9C36.2040207@missouri.edu> <20120805175106.X3574@besplex.bde.org> <501EC015.3000808@missouri.edu>
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On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 01:48:53PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > On 08/05/2012 05:05 AM, Bruce Evans wrote: > >On Sat, 4 Aug 2012, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > >> > >>What is the purpose of the macros norm and spadd? > > > >[Answer snipped for brevity] > > Thank you. Your answers are very helpful. I had no idea what norm and > spadd did, and now just even glancing through your answers tells me > exactly what they do (even if I haven't yet fully understood why they work). > > If you don't want lengthy comments in the code, perhaps you could simply > include the following link in a comment: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-numerics/2012-August/000020.html > > Let me say that in my proposed code for casinh, etc, that I do have > essay length comments. > http://people.freebsd.org/~stephen/catrig.c > > I plan to respect your style (keep out very lengthy comments), but I > hope whomever commits my code will respect my style and keep the lengthy > comments. Essay long comments probably belong in the man page if the essay is important to the details of implementation. Bruce may disagree with me. -- Steve
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