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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 20:55:38 -0400
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Subject: Re: naive question: gcc and glibc
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In-Reply-To: <002e01bfd971$aae3a240$0100000a@TIMYX18EWDT6RQ>; from tprince@computer.org on Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:07:58PM -0700

On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:07:58PM -0700, Tim Prince wrote:
>I suppose it would be a large project to port glibc to cygwin.  Probably
>not even advisable to do the whole thing, as long as cygnus/redhat are
>maintaining newlib partly for this application.  I'd be happy to tackle
>certain parts in which I have an interest, if suitably motivated.  The
>ieeefp thing looks feasible.  There, I suppose we want to have the
>functions both under the names they have in glibc and the ones currently
>in the cygwin headers.  As we would likely end up with an add-on library
>which simply fits glibc components into cygwin, it's unlikely to be
>adopted as part of cygwin or newlib.

Mumit Khan has already ported glibc to Windows, sans cygwin.

>The subject of math functions and bringing x87 support into cygwin has
>been brought up before.  It has the same problem, apparently, of not
>being acceptable to newlib and therefore not wanted as a standard part
>of cygwin.  I hope I'm not mis-characterizing what was said, and
>actually I'd be happy to be wrong.

I don't know if you're wrong or not but I don't recall any discussion
like this and I can't imagine why anyone would turn away properly
written extra functionality in newlib.

However, I keep pointing out that the place for newlib discussions is
newlib AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com.  Rather than speculate on what will or
won't be accepted, why not ask the actual maintainers?

cgf

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