Re: Re: lib/49387: erfl and erfcl missing

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Nov 13,  8:25pm, kuehro%gmx.de@localhost ("Kai-Uwe Eckhardt") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Re: lib/49387: erfl and erfcl missing

| The following reply was made to PR lib/49387; it has been noted by GNATS.
| 
| From: "Kai-Uwe Eckhardt" <kuehro%gmx.de@localhost>
| To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
| Cc: 
| Subject: Re: Re: lib/49387: erfl and erfcl missing
| Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:23:17 +0100
| 
|  >  Yes, but it is more complicated than that. 
|  
|  Yes I know, and I really think the world doesn't need long double. People
|  should think about their algorithms before using it and about the performance
|  penalty. But since it is part of the standards, programs like gcc and R complain
|  about missing functions. 
|  
|  Thanks for all your work on the long double complex functions by the way, it
|  really helped to reduce test failures in gcc.

For now we can do the regular hack in the dummy functions... I think I'll
do that for expediency. I do have some work in progress fixing the issue
but it will be a while until it gets in commit worthy shape:
http://www.netbsd.org/~christos/libm.tar.gz

christos