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Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2026 18:53:11 +0200
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Subject: Re: log2() is not called for C code, a bug into math.h ?
To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@unified-streaming.com>
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From: "Carlo B. via Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Hello,

Il Sab 6 Giu 2026, 14:19 Dimitry Andric <dimitry@unified-streaming.com> ha
scritto:

>
> It's been defined like that since the "import newlib-2000-02-17 snapshot",
> so for 26 years:
>
>
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=newlib/libc/include/math.h;h=d3f2e99ae4d33596b608225f0349a6d581d265ca;hb=8a0efa53e44919bcf5ccb1d3353618a82afdf8bc#l103
>
> My guess is that at the time, there wasn't yet a separate log2()
> implementation, so this was an easy way to cover that case.
>

Thank you very much for the reply.
So, do you think that it would be possible to remove those lines from
math.h and use the log2() now provided?

Sincerely,

Carlo Bramini


> -Dimitry
>
>

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