Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 21:54:29 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@time.cdrom.com, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf Message-ID: <199503210554.VAA29561@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199503210519.PAA04689@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 21, 95 03:19:37 pm
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> It's hardly worth the trouble of fixing this. msun should become libm. > If you want to support the old library then everything should be > renamed: > > msun -> libm > libm -> libmould (sic) No. I don't care if libm is called msun from now till the national deficit is paid. This is pointless, and it would screw up the cvs-tree. > We also need dynamic support for the i387 functions. -DHAVE_FPU is no > good because it can't be used for the distribution libraries. Something > like > > if (_have_i387) > result = _i387_pow(x, y); > else > result = __ieee754_pow(x, y); > > would add less time overhead than shared linkage. Now this makes sense! -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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