Message-ID: <19980917205041.C161@mail.datanet.hu>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 20:50:41 +0200
From: Laszlo Molnar <ml1050 AT mail DOT datanet DOT hu>
To: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>, Kbwms AT aol DOT com
Cc: 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 Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 09:56:53AM +0200, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 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.
> > 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

Yeah, Andris' patch fixes the problem in perl. Thanks.

Laszlo