Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148

[John Baldwin]

On Friday, June 01, 2012 1:55:10 am Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 31 May 2012 08:45, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > I do think we should provide something in ports as an interim solution.
> > There are other 3rd party applications looking to drop FreeBSD support
> > because we are missing APIs that almost all other OS's have.  I'm fine
> > if the interim lives in ports and that we don't import substandard
> > routines into the base.  I would even be fine with calling it
> > /usr/local/lib/libm_inaccurate.so.  However, I do think we need an option.
> 
> Do we have a wiki page listing the functions in libm we are missing?
> Having some kind of place to track progress and figure out what
> exactly is needed is the first step to getting these APIs into shape.
> 
> Also, are there BSD licensed naive implementations of these functions
> we can use? Would it be okay to have slow, but accurate versions of
> these functions as a stopgap?

Peter Jeremy more or less has a stopgap already ready judging by the comments 
in the thread thus far.

-- 
John Baldwin