[PATCH] Remove matherr, and SVID and X/Open math library configurations

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 22 20:51, Jozef Lawrynowicz wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:50:00 +0100
> Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Your patch was fine, just the problem of stopping to export a symbol
> > from Cygwin worried me.
> > 
> > We don't want to break an older application to run just because we
> > removed a function from the DLL.  On reading your mail and further
> > reading up on matherr it seems this isn't really a problem.
> > 
> > If we *really* get a complaint on the Cygwin mailing list, we can
> > resurrect matherr just as an exportable symbol for Cygwin.
> 
> Ok, sounds good.
> 
> > Can you please resend your patch?
> 
> I've attached the original patch (0001-*), but also 3 further patches which
> make some additional improvements to the float math functions.
> 
> 0002-Newlib-Remove-HUGE_VAL-definition-from-libm-math-fun.patch
> This patch removes the definitions of HUGE_VAL from some of the float math
> functions. HUGE_VAL is defined in newlib/libc/include/math.h, so it is not
> necessary to have a further definition in the math functions.
> 
> 0003-Newlib-Use-HUGE_VALF-instead-of-HUGE_VAL-in-single-p.patch
> This patch replaces instances of "(float).*HUGE_VAL" with a direct usage of
> HUGE_VALF, which is also defined in math.h.
> 
> 0004-Newlib-Use-nanf-instead-of-nan-in-single-precision-f.patch
> This patch further reduces code size for a few single-precision float math
> functions, by using nanf() instead of nan() where required.
> 
> I've regtested the patches with the GCC testsuite for arm-unknown-eabi, and I
> built Cygwin and regtested it with "make check".

All patches applied.  I added a bit of your text to your patch
description, just the headline is a bit terse.  It would be nice
for future patches to read the description not only in the mail,
but also in the patch itself :)

Oh, and I added a bit of Cygwin version paraphernalia to your first
patch.


Thanks,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat
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