Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:48:47 +1100 (EST) From: Tim Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/35070: math(3) references section "3m", etc. Message-ID: <200202160648.g1G6mlE00475@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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>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 Most of the notes in the manual page is very much out of date.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:
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