Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/11/11/21:03:01
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 08:58:07PM -0500, Stephen L Moshier wrote:
>On trying to use cygwin development tools for the first time, I am
>disappointed to find no long double support in printf or math library.
>Could someone in authority please indicate what is the policy on this?
>Why is it not there? Would you put in the support if it were
>available? The math functions can be distributed independently, but
>I think the important long double items to integrate into the cygwin
>library would be some working printf and scanf conversions.
>
>For those others who may need something that runs, I have updated
>a previously posted function suite with a special "cygwin.mak"
>makefile here: http://moshier.ne.mediaone.net/ldouble.zip .
>It does not have a printf replacement but it does include a
>function to convert between digit strings and long doubles.
>
>A search of the mailing list archive turned up what looks like
>another attempt to offer long double functions, over a year ago,
>as a version of mathinline.h. Did that work lead anywhere?
Not that I'm aware of. I don't recall anyone submitting any code.
You know that this is a free software project, right?
If you have something to provide to the newlib library (which cygwin
uses for stuff like this), contact the newlib mailing list at
newlib AT sources DOT redhat DOT com.
As to why it's not there, it's not there because no one has implemented
it. If someone implements it, I'm sure that the newlib maintainers
would consider it.
cgf
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