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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:03:29 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: long double support in cygwin
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In-Reply-To: <99B82AA9708ED0119B55006097125A00405B5E@ifk63.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>; from heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:54:03PM +0100

Can we PLEASE move this discussion to the newlib mailing list?

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:54:03PM +0100, Heribert Dahms wrote:
>since I've never used DJGPP, I don't know it's licensing implications.
>Is it possible for Red Hat to use it the required way?
>
>Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Stephen L Moshier [SMTP:moshier@mediaone.net]
>> Sent:	Sunday, November 12, 2000 05:01
>> To:	Christopher Faylor
>> Cc:	cygwin@sources.redhat.com
>> Subject:	Re: long double support in cygwin
>> 
>> [Heribert]  [snip] 
>> 
>>You could have copied the implementations from the old linux libc,
>>glibc 1 or 2 libraries, from libio, from gmp, or from DJGPP.  The
>>printf in newlib is BSD.  That has previously been modified for long
>>double support in linux libc 4, as a contributed item for DJGPP and,
>>one would think, by BSD as well.  Why aren't you using any of these six
>>or seven codes that various people have indeed implemented?  What is
>>the policy?

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