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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
To: "'moshier AT mediaone DOT net'" <moshier AT mediaone DOT net>
Cc: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: RE: long double support in cygwin
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:54:03 +0100
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DJ,

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 AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stephen L Moshier [SMTP:moshier AT mediaone DOT net]
> Sent:	Sunday, November 12, 2000 05:01
> To:	Christopher Faylor
> Cc:	cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT 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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