Subject: fdlibm announcement, of possible interest for comp.os.linux.announce
From: [email-masked] (David G. Hough at validgh)
Date: 20 Dec 1993 01:58:12 +0200
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Dr. K-C Ng has developed a new version of libm that is the basis for
the bundled /usr/lib/libm.so in Solaris 2.3 for SPARC and for future
Solaris 2 releases for x86 and PowerPC.   It provides the standard
functions necessary to pass the usual test suites.
This new libm can be configured to handle exceptions in accordance with
various language standards or in the spirit of IEEE 754.
The C source code should be portable to any IEEE 754 system with minimal
difficulty.

fdlibm contains no additional functions
beyond those required by various standards;
the additional functions that used to be part of Sun libm
will be distributed in a new library libsunmath.a that will
be shipped with the unbundled SunPro compilers.

In the interest of elevating the minimum acceptable level of quality in
math libraries, SunPro has decided to make K-C's work freely distributable
subject only the restriction that its origin be acknowledged.

How to get fdlibm by email - as three email messages of 100KB each:

   	mail [email-masked]
   	send all from fdlibm
 
How to get fdlibm by ftp:

	ftp netlib.att.com
   	cd netlib
   	get fdlibm.tar

Remember that anything free comes with no guarantee.  But
you may send comments and bug reports to:
       
         [email-masked]

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