newlib vs C99 math functions

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 04:03:27PM -0500, jschopp wrote:
>Andrew Pinski wrote:
>>While porting some code over to use newlib from a closed source libc,
>>I ran into the problem of that newlib did not implement most of the
>>C99 math functions or macros.  I ran into the problem that FP_ILOGB0
>>was not defined and I was wondering if anyone is working on adding any
>>of the C99 math functions to newlib?
>>
>>Also is there a bug system for newlib because it would be great to
>>file bugs about the problems I ran into.
>
>We (2 of us at IBM) are starting to work on improving the newlib math on 
>the cell processor.  We are more focused on making existing functions 
>faster for our machine, but if you had a list we could probably knock off 
>some C99 at the same time.
>
>Bugzilla, what a good idea.

It should be fairly easy to set up.  Jeff can just send email to overseers
at sourceware period org requesting it if he thinks this is desirable.

cgf