James Carlson <james.d.carlson at Sun.COM> wrote:

> Roland Mainz writes:
> > Is there a precedent that an application in OS/Net links with
> > libsunmath.a ?
>
> Only cmd/fps/fptest.
>
> > The problem is that libm.so.2 lacks some functions (e.g.
> > |iszero()|, |issubnormal()| etc.) and libsunmath.so.1 sits in
> > /opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/ ... ;-(
>
> Note that depending on libsunmath.a likely means that OpenSolaris
> participants can't easily compile with gcc.  That seems like a bad
> thing to me.

The usual way to deal with this is to use functions that are part of relevent 
standards. iszero() is not listed by POSIX, fpclassify() is.

J?rg

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