Re: Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148

On 1 June 2012 17:03, Peter Jeremy <peter_at_rulingia.com> wrote:
> On 2012-Jun-01 10:29:13 -0400, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>On Friday, June 01, 2012 1:55:10 am Eitan Adler wrote:
>>> Also, are there BSD licensed naive implementations of these functions
>>> we can use? Would it be okay to has 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.
>
> There's probably an hours work by either stephen_at_ or myself to adapt
> the work I did on cephes in Sage to a standalone FreeBSD port.
> Unfortunately, both stephen_at_ & I are currently otherwise occupied and
> other comments in this thread suggest that the inclusion of such a port
> would be strongly opposed.
>
> Note that cephes isn't "slow but accurate" - it's reasonably fast but
> naive and therefore dodgy in edge cases.

Yes, I was asking if any of the former type exist.
Optimally we would want fast and accurate - but it doesn't currently exist.
Fast, but inaccurate has been strongly objected to.

Is there third option?



-- 
Eitan Adler