Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:56:53 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Kbwms AT aol DOT com
cc: Laszlo Molnar <ml1050 AT mail DOT datanet DOT hu>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        DJGPP Workers List <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: libm.a problem in latest alpha(s) (fwd)
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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 Kbwms AT aol DOT com wrote:

> Dear Laszlo Molnar,
> 
> > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, you wrote:
> >
> > > I've found a problem in the latest libm.a while testing perl 5.005_02.
> > > Perl fails on two of its tests when I link it with djdev202a (980726+),
> > > but it works with the plain old djdev201.
> >
> 
> I was not aware that we supported complex arithmetic let alone complex
> math functions.  I'd appreciate getting a zip of the source files and
> testing materials.  I have been helping Eli Zaretskii checkout/verify
> the new math library and would like to help here, too.
> 

Complex math functions are in libstdcxx.a (and corresponding include files).
The problem with perl tests is that atan2 in libm.a is broken:
 	atan2(anything,1.2)
returns wrong value.

I yesterday send patch that fixes this bug to this mailing list.

Andris