From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Feb 17 23: 1:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242FF37B6B5 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:00:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1I702G18973; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:00:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Received: from descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au (069.f.010.mel.iprimus.net.au [210.50.205.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2161E37B42C for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:50:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tim@localhost) by descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1G6mlE00475; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:48:47 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from tim) Message-Id: <200202160648.g1G6mlE00475@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:48:47 +1100 (EST) From: Tim Robbins Reply-To: Tim Robbins To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Subject: bin/35070: math(3) references section "3m", etc. Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Number: 35070 >Category: bin >Synopsis: math(3) references section "3m", etc. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Feb 17 23:00:02 PST 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Tim Robbins >Release: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #4: Fri Feb 15 13:31:25 EST 2002 tim@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DESCENT i386 >Description: math(3) references section 3m, for example, sin.3m. The table doesn't line up properly. Most of the notes in the manual page is very much out of date. IEEE floating point arithmetic is far more widely implemented than VAX anything. For example: The codes in 4.3 BSD's libm for machines that conform to IEEE 754 are intended primarily for the National Semi. 32081 and WTL 1164/65. To use these codes with the Intel or Zilog chips, or with the Apple Macintosh or ELXSI 6400, ... >How-To-Repeat: Obvious. >Fix: The manual page could do with a rewrite (it's still using -man macro set). I am volunteering to do this, just ask. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message