Re: C99 anomolies... ?

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>]

On Aug 28 11:07, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 27/08/2014 11:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Aug 26 17:43, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >>On 8/26/2014 5:30 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >>>As part of our internal testing I found a few bits of newlib that
> >>>don't seem to be "right" with C99, enough to cause problems with the
> >>>testing framework.  Comments?
> >>>
> 
> >>
> >>This is an unfortunately long list of some of the things I found missing
> >>a couple of years ago when I compared RTEMS+newlib to the Open
> >>Group FACE General Purpose POSIX Profile. These may be POSIX or
> >>C99, I didn't investigate that:
> >>
> >>cabsl cacoshl cacosl cargl casinhl casinl catanhl catanl ccoshl ccosl
> >>   cexpl cimagl clogl conjl cpowl cprojl creall csinhl csinl csqrtl
> >>   ctanhl ctanl log2l logbl
> >
> >In fact, except on systems with long double == double, none of the
> >long double functions is available in newlib.
> >
> >Marco Atzeri (CCed) included the complex functions in 2010 and showed
> >some interest in adding long double functionality to newlib.  Marco,
> >do you still have something in the loop?
> 
> Still on my plan, I just put by side due to relocation last year
> in your country (Ich bin MÃnchener) as kindly asked by my employer.

So you're now a Bavarian by circumstances as well :)

> There are around 56 missing function in math.h and 22 in complex.h
> almost all related to long double.
> So slight more than the 66 complex ones I added last time.
> 
> I think the best is to split in several patches to cover all of
> them without waiting that everything is ready.
> I will start to work again next week when I am back from vacation.
> The base should be the freebsd implementation.

Sounds extra super to me.


Thanks!
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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