correctly rounded mathematical functions

Joel Sherrill joel@rtems.org
Wed Jan 5 19:00:35 GMT 2022


I hate to ask since I know this is unrelated but what is the best source for
properly licensed and accurate long double methods. I am still hoping that
part of an RTEMS GSoC project is to merge them from somewhere into
newlib.

And I'm thrilled at all the autoconf/automake work. That has really
been a challenge
for students.

On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 5:39 AM Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr> wrote:
>
>        Hi Keith,
>
> > Yeah, I've forked newlib into 'picolibc' and have removed all of the
> > non-BSD licensed files to make the license status of that project
> > clearly BSD only. All of the non-BSD files are used to build the library
> > only for specific targets; the general library code is all BSD licensed.
> >
> > Something BSD-ish would preserve the license status of newlib built for
> > embedded targets, and would also be usable by picolibc.
>
> then I guess the MIT license would be ok for both newlib and picolibc,
> since it is more permissive than the BSD license.
>
> Best regards,
> Paul


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