Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc
To: None <source-changes@netbsd.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
List: source-changes
Date: 06/27/2006 19:22:27
At Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:16:47 +0000 (UTC),
Matthias Drochner wrote:
> 
> 
> Module Name:	src
> Committed By:	drochner
> Date:		Tue Jun 27 18:16:47 UTC 2006
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	src/lib/libc/gen: Makefile.inc
> Added Files:
> 	src/lib/libc/compat/gen: compat_frexp_ieee754.c compat_ldexp_ieee754.c
> 	    compat_modf_ieee754.c
> 
> Log Message:
> First step to clean up the variety of frexp(), ldexp() and modf()
> implementations.
> Long term goal is to use the implementation in libm and get rid of
> the libc instances. For now, we need to keep one in libc for compatibility,
> it belongs into the compat subtree.
> The switch is per-arch. Should be painless for ieee754 boxes.
> If all ieee754 archs are switched, libc/gen/{frexp,ldexp,modf}_ieee754.c
> can be removed.

Is this something that we should add to htdocs/developers/features ?