From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9709 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2011 10:17:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 9614 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Apr 2011 10:16:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:16:44 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id D90B92C0313; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:16:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:43:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: newlib and long-double question Message-ID: <20110418101641.GC25815@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20110409160524.GA29135@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <85C4645B18FA4D37852D725436AB741B@desktop2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-04/txt/msg00234.txt.bz2 On Apr 10 19:30, N. C. wrote: > Exactly, I really need to be able to build Perl whose NV is a long > double. And this was just one example that I gave. I honestly think it > is worth it to have long double support in cygwin (to have those > functions that are currently undefined), as it seems more and more > clear that A) there is a use for them, and B) there are cases where it > really is needed. > > IIRC, the whole point of cygwin is to have a unix-like environment > within a non-unix-like system, right? Does it not make sense to make > the back bone (libc) that much mroe complete, furthur augmenting > usability and compatibility? The problem is not that anybody doubts that long double support is useful, the problem is the simple lack of somebody actually volunteering to do it. We all have our plates full with other stuff to do. So, if you're familiar with math stuff and you would like to see long double support in newlib/Cygwin, there's nothing better than contributing the code yourself. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple