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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:00:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Stephen L Moshier <moshier AT mediaone DOT net>
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To: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: long double support in cygwin
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>>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.

The posting was by Tim Prince.  If you told him what you just
told me, to go talk to newlib, then I suppose he would not have
submitted any code to you.  But I don't see it in newlib either.


> As to why it's not there, it's not there because no one has
> implemented it.

I don't think that explains it.
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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