Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:08:37 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>, David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148 Message-ID: <F064A4CB-6F11-4B84-95BE-F2CE8E4DB023@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20120710134523.GA84396@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <4FC40449.3040602@missouri.edu> <20120528233035.GA77157@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4FC40DEA.8030703@missouri.edu> <20120529000756.GA77386@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4FC43C8F.5090509@missouri.edu> <20120529045612.GB4445@server.rulingia.com> <20120708124047.GA44061@zim.MIT.EDU> <210816F0-7ED7-4481-ABFF-C94A700A3EA0@bsdimp.com> <20120708233624.GA53462@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4FFBF16D.2030007@gwdg.de> <20120710134523.GA84396@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Jul 10, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:10:05AM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote: >>=20 >> Do you think your version from=20 >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D152415 for expl() ld80=20= >> version could be the one getting into head? Would you be willing to=20= >> commit it? >=20 > That's a fairly early version of the ld80 expl(). > bde and das reviewed the code and made several > suggested changes. Cool. Send them to me and I'll move them into the tree. >> As far as I understand from discussions on R mailing list=20 >> (r-devel@r-project.org), they plan to reduce the emulation and/or=20 >> workaround of long and complex math functions for FreeBSD and other=20= >> systems with their next releases of R devel. So we could really need=20= >> some progress with our C99 conform math functions ;-) >=20 > I don't know R, and I don't understand what is meant > by 'they plan to reduce the emulation and/or workaround > of ... funtions'. R is a totally awesome statistical and graphics packaging. It means = they are dropping support for freeBSD because we don't have these = functions. That totally sucks, and to prevent that, I'd be willing to = commit the #define nonsense. Unless somebody has something better they = could forward me for integration... Warner=
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