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

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

The following reply was made to PR lib/49387; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: Re: lib/49387: erfl and erfcl missing
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:40:42 -0500

 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