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On Mar 23 10:40, Gregg Reynolds wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build tokyocabinet on cygwin.  It needs strtold and the
> isnormal macro.  Before I hack up an ad-hoc fix are there any plans to
> implement these for cygwin?

Not yet.  The reason is that Cygwin's underlying math library (part
of newlib), does not handle long doubles at all so far.  That's why
we have none of the long double functions like cosl etc.


Corinna

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