Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 18:01:49 -0400
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> Unless there are legal reasons to do so, writing replacement
> functions sounds like a complete waste of effort (both doing it and
> maintaining it).

I spot-checked a few of the files, and the copyrights seem compatible
with the ways we distribute djgpp's C library.

> 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?

fdlibm's implementations are larger byte-wise.