Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 19:42:45 +0300
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu
> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 11:06:01 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> Unless there are legal reasons to do so

I don't think there are legal reasons, but DJ should give the
definitive say-so.

> Maybe we should move all of libm into libc, make libm an empty shell, 
> and replace the old libc functions with the libm ones.

The ``old'' libc functions are actually newer than libm: they were
rewritten in preparation for v2.03 to be fast but ANSI-compliant, and
to utilize the x87 coprocessor to the greatest possible degree.

> If we removed all of our definitions which are redundant with fdlibm,
> and just build fdlibm modules as part of the libc, what are the drawbacks?

The main drawback is that we lose the fast libc routines added for
v2.03.  I don't want to lose them.