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Re: libm error handling
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:55:19 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: libm error handling
- References: <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1304301628510 dot 21969 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <20130430181544 dot GG20323 at brightrain dot aerifal dot cx> <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1304301910460 dot 28945 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <20130430195734 dot B5AB82C08F at topped-with-meat dot com> <20130430200511 dot GH20323 at brightrain dot aerifal dot cx>
> Yes this is a possibility, but I've never seen such a program. If such
> programs do exist, the current implementation is treating them
> incorrectly; the correct interpretation of such a program as written
> is that signgam is an object defined in the application, not libm.
No, that's just not what the API is (and has always been).