On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 02/09/2012 04:53 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > My view is that we should have a "GNU libm" project whose purpose is not > > to install a library directly but to provide functions for use in other > > projects (much like gnulib, but the functions could presume that they were > > being built with recent GCC). > > But why, exactly? Simply because we could never get an improved > libm into glibc with Ulrich Drepper and Richard Stallman as > gatekeepers?
No, the point of the separate project would be to be used by both glibc and GCC (and possibly other GNU projects such as GSL) - because cooperation among the various projects wanting such functions is the right way to do things. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
