On Aug 5, 10:41am, [email protected] (Andrew Haley) wrote: -- Subject: Re: JDK 8 code review request for 7075098: Remove unused fdlibm f
| On 08/04/2011 09:09 PM, Joe Darcy wrote: | | > Mike Duigou wrote: | >> Looks good to me. | >> | >> I did wonder if we have a policy for tracking fdlibm updates. | > | > To a first approximation (and even a second approximation), fdlibm | > doesn't have updates any more any hasn't for many years. The changes in | > in 5.3 were to fix a few bugs I and others had discovered circa 2004. [1] | | That's right. We used fdlibm in libgcj too, and it is very solid and reliable | code. The only problems we ever had were some non-portable assumptions that | were fairly easy to fix. Maybe fdlibm will never now be updated. We are using fdlibm too on NetBSD (FreeBSD uses it too) and we had to fix a couple of bugs and add long double support. Perhaps we should all send our changes back and get a new release, or if they don't want to maintain it, we should maintain it centrally? christos
