Re: Historical Origins of y0l, y1l, and ynl Methods

[Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems dot org>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 9:03 AM Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Feb 12 08:49, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > These three methods are in glibc math.h but I can't find anything that
> > gives a standards basis or historical origin. They are not in newlib.
> >
> > Anyone have any insight?
>
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/y0.3.html:
>
> CONFORMING TO
>
>    The functions returning double conform to SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001,
>    POSIX.1-2008.  The others are nonstandard functions that also exist
>    on the BSDs.
>

Thanks. I should have just done a man on them. :(

I assume they aren't that commonly used or Newlib would have picked them
up over the years.

--joel

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> Corinna
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