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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!tulane!ukma!risner From: risner@ms.uky.edu (James Risner) Subject: Re: libm.a for i387 Keywords: libm.a References: <139be6INN3jj@disaster.Germany.EU.net> Message-ID: <1992Jul6.141522.26929@ms.uky.edu> Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1992 18:15:22 GMT Lines: 32 bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes: >Hi there, >Has anybody out there in net.land got a version of libm specifically >designed for i387 ? >The one that comes with 386bsd seems to use double +-*/, bit manipulations >and integer arithmetic only. >Okay, I'll admit I started on a libm/i387 - but >a) I don't want to re-invent the wheel >b) I don't know when to let the routines cause a FPE signal or when to set > errno (and to what) I had a lot of trouble with log(), exp(), floor(), and ceil() in the dist libm.a so I got glenn geers libm replacement for i387 chips and the problems went away... I have not had a chance to poke around and find out why the libm.a functions were failing. mathlib i387: glenn@qed.physics.su.oz.au. Glenn Geers Department of Theoretical Physics The University of Sydney Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Ph: +61 2 692-3241 Ported to 386bsd gcc/gas: f.ms.uky.edu:/pub2/386BSD/local/mathlib-2.1-386bsd.tar.Z Includes libm replacement, diffs, sources, mathlib tester. Risner