On 02/09/2012 06:00 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > 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.
Well, yes, but I don't quite understand why libm isn't obviously a sub-project of libc. Andrew.
