Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <99B82AA9708ED0119B55006097125A00405B5E@ifk63.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> From: Heribert Dahms To: "'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 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) Content-Type: text/plain 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? > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com