standards/175811: libstdc++ needs complex support in order use C99

[Pedro Giffuni]

On 30.05.2013 15:15, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:43:51PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>> On 30.05.2013 12:13, Steve Kargl wrote:
>>> C99 defines many long double functions.  Anyone wanting
>>> to use C and libm, and not C++ and boost, will need
>>> quality implementations of these functions.  Of course,
>>> the lack of any actual C99 compiler tends to dampen
>>> this argument.
>>>
>>> What I find appalling is reading "people are tired
>>> of the situation with libm, so I'm  going to commit
>>> some atrocious hack".   The proper response should be
>>> "so I'm going to help implement and test the missing
>>> functionality".  It's unfortunate that only a few
>>> individuals are working to fix libm, but such is
>>> life.
>>>
>> I guess I was trying to hint that Boost is a good
>> place to look at to get ideas for the implementations
>> for such stuff. Stephen knows this well though since
>> he actually fixed some complex functions in boost :).
>>
> Boost might be a good place to look for implementation
> ideas.  Looking at the msun code also works.  As does
> searching with google.  This is all secondary to the
> real issue.  The real problem is no one is willing to
> step forward to actually help write and test the code.
> Everyone seems to be waiting (and complaining!) for
> someone else to do the work.  I've been chipping away at
> libm issues since 2003, and given my available free time
> I should have a fully compliant C99 libm around 2025 or
> so.
>

And it happens all around the tree ...

The guys fixing clang seem pretty overloaded too.
We really need a better installer, and to add more DTrace
providers and while here more filesystems ... it never stops
and we are all just volunteers.

All in all, feedback is not necessarily a bad thing.
Even if there are few heroic developers working on it, it
would help to have a list of open tasks like this:

http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/

so that someone asking about the status is just pointed
there and gets the picture.

Just my $0.02, sorry that I am busy with other stuff.

Pedro.