Re: long double support in cygwin

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

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

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