Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 21:02:36 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: long double support in cygwin Message-ID: <20001111210236.C25395@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: ; from moshier@mediaone.net on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 08:58:07PM -0500 On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 08:58:07PM -0500, Stephen L Moshier wrote: >On trying to use cygwin development tools for the first time, I am >disappointed to find no long double support in printf or math library. >Could someone in authority please indicate what is the policy on this? >Why is it not there? Would you put in the support if it were >available? The math functions can be distributed independently, but >I think the important long double items to integrate into the cygwin >library would be some working printf and scanf conversions. > >For those others who may need something that runs, I have updated >a previously posted function suite with a special "cygwin.mak" >makefile here: http://moshier.ne.mediaone.net/ldouble.zip . >It does not have a printf replacement but it does include a >function to convert between digit strings and long doubles. > >A search of the mailing list archive turned up what looks like >another attempt to offer long double functions, over a year ago, >as a version of mathinline.h. Did that work lead anywhere? Not that I'm aware of. I don't recall anyone submitting any code. You know that this is a free software project, right? If you have something to provide to the newlib library (which cygwin uses for stuff like this), contact the newlib mailing list at newlib@sources.redhat.com. As to why it's not there, it's not there because no one has implemented it. If someone implements it, I'm sure that the newlib maintainers would consider it. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com